Quotes from Robert Pattinson

Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

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.

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.'

The person who proclaimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport outfit.

I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

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.

I got expelled from my school when I was 12; I was quite bad!

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

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, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.

I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.

My worst habit is speaking to much

I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips!

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a song in the movie.

Alot of peo­ple think our lives are all about tak­ing pic­tures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're tak­ing pic­tures of you all the time.

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.