Pattinson: “I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.”

Pattinson: "One really nice thing about acting is that it's like a weird therapy exercise. If you're insecure or shy or something, then you can kind of experiment with expanding your horizons within the framework of a fiction."

Pattinson: "This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well." 

Pattinson: "I was a bit of a loner at school. My first kiss was when I was 12, but I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 18."

Pattinson: "My favorite teacher was probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages of nonsense and she'd still mark it. She was a really amazing teacher."

[On if he would make another Twilight film]

Pattinson: "If there was an alien invasion and stuff... I was talking about the other day they kind of, [if] they sort of mix it up with the Avengers. Or maybe just, make it Twilight / Avengers."

[On what he would change if he was king and ruled the world back in 2012]

Pattinson: “I’d prohibit boring people. In my opinion there is nothing worse. People who are boring should be in prison and be forced to learn to be creative with the other prisoners.”

Pattinson: "My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted."

Pattinson: “I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside my apartment every day for weeks - all day every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with her. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back.”

Pattinson: “The first time I went to see the circus, somebody died. One of the clowns died. His little car exploded. The joke car exploded on him.”

[On his lie about a childhood memory of a clown at the circus dying]

Pattinson: “I said those things. But I actually made the whole thing up. It’s coming back to haunt me. I said it on some show. It was really early in the morning the day after the New York premiere. Someone asked me what my experience with the circus was and I was like, I have nothing interesting to say. I don’t know why I said that!”

Pattinson: "My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play."

Pattinson: "I think as soon as you feel validated, you're a bad actor. You need to constantly feel like there's a 99% chance of failure; total failure; devastating failure. You should feel like every single job is a potential which you're never going to get one again."

Pattinson: “Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes because you’re around the same people. That was the good thing about having different directors. You had to stay on your toes.”

Pattinson: "I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they're playing an assholes. You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they're really deep in character."

Pattinson: "I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought."

Pattinson: "I have been lucky, of course. Like, last year, if I went out, I'd have to fight to chat someone up. This year, I look exactly the same, which is really scruffy, and yet lots of people seem to have just changed their minds and decided I'm really sexy."

Pattinson: "I'd love to be able to fit in a box. Like one of those people who fit into small boxes."

Pattinson: “I always think everything is going to be my last job so every single day is a gift. This whole life is an accident for me.”

Pattinson: “I haven't really decided to be an actor yet!... I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group.”

[On Kristen Stewart]

Pattinson: “We understand each other without the words...because she’s in the same position as I am.”

Pattinson: "I don't think anyone can understand what's happening. You wake up one day and you're suddenly a star... really weird. All of a sudden everyone knows who you are while you haven't changed one bit. It's a little bit over the top. All my life I've hated crowds. I was quite a paranoid person anyway, so it doesn't really feed well when people are looking at you. I'm not really in the right job. I don't like having my photo taken. I don't like the attention."

Pattinson: "I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. My school reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard."

Pattinson: "If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on."

Pattinson: “Lots of people tell me I smell like a crayon.”

Pattinson: "Before I did this movie I was fully intending on hiding for a couple of years, but this has really reinvigorated my ideas about acting. And I like being slightly on the fringe as well, rather than trying to get movies that are sort of vehicles."

Pattinson: "I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'"

Pattinson: “Have you ever had someone spit on you in a kind of erotic way?” It’s pretty great.”

Pattinson: “I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three or four. And the guitar - I used to play classical guitar from when I was about five to twelve years of age. Then I didn't play guitar for like years. About four or five years ago, I got out the guitar again and just started playing blues and stuff. I am not very good at the guitar, but I am all right. I am in a band in London as well.”

Pattinson: “I'm trying to make something every time that feels new...When I'm finishing one movie the next day I'm thinking about the next one.”

Pattinson: "When I was 14, I fronted a rap trio. Pretty hard-core for three private school kids from suburban London. And my mum's, like, cramping our style, popping her head in to ask, 'You boys want a sandwich?' I 100% wanted to become a rapper, my name was Big Tub. I remember I didn't know how to scratch and so I used to pull up and down the zipper on my hoodie and recorded it."

Pattinson: “I never asked to be a poster-boy.”

Pattinson: "I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'"

Pattinson: "I'm always ready for my life to change. I'm always waiting for it to change."

Pattinson: "I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned."

[On Edward Cullen from the Twilight saga]

Pattinson: "You can tell he's just gonna freak out one day and shoot someone... He's one of those guys who would be like an ax murderer."

Pattinson: "I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other."

Pattinson: "The world would be a much better place, I think, if all these bankers and billionaires were followed by paparazzi. I can't really tell what's so interesting about actors. People don't find the personal lives of people with much more power than any celebrity would have, interesting. And I think if you put the lives of people who control billions of dollars on the front pages of every single paper, the world would be a better place. If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they have to be responsible for their own words."

Pattinson: “I think the most stressful thing in movies is when the weather is really random.”

Pattinson: "People just project their idea of my character (Edward Cullen) on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when, in reality, I'm not. I mean, just last year I couldn't even get a date and then this year, the world turns and it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind. I never considered myself attractive, really. I was always kind of gangly in school."

Pattinson: "Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something."

Pattinson: “Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!”

Pattinson: "I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before."

Pattinson: “When I was 17... I had... baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would achieve success, which involved making decisions... Having control... I understood, with all that control... I wasn't progressing... I'll be a tiny bit naked.”

Pattinson: “People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.”

Pattinson: "My dad and I were in a restaurant one day and noticed this group of pretty girls. The girls said they'd been to the local acting school. I never did any acting at school - I was quite shy - but after that day my dad nagged me about attending. He said he'd pay me, which is pretty strange, but I went."

Pattinson: "If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words."

Pattinson: “I don't feel like I'm making a film if someone is enthusiastic enough to convince you that it's important it's kind of magical.”

Pattinson: "I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy."

Pattinson: “I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on.”

Pattinson: "Everything has become more intense for six months, since Twilight was released. It's hard to handle what's happening to me. I don't have the necessary hindsight, even if only to find a way out to this situation. But this celebrity thing, you can't fight it, it's useless, you can't avoid it. When it's not something you desired during your whole life, or something you don't aspire to, you're free not to care about it. I didn't sign for Disney. There's not a stipulation which forces me to smile to the paparazzi."

Pattinson: “Playing the part where you can't get hurt.. .can't die because there's no framework... If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.”

Pattinson: “Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.”