Robert Pattinson

[being naked in his new role in Little Ashes] In a lot of ways, I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.

The day before the film (Harry Potter) was released, I was just sitting in Leicester Square, happily being ignored by everyone. Then suddenly strangers are screaming your name. Amazing.

Before you, my life was like a moonless night, but there were stars-points of light and reason. Then you flew across my sky, and there was light. When you were gone, when the meteor had flown over the horizon, nothing had changed, but my eyes had been blinded by the light. I couldnt see the light anymore, and there ceased to be a reason for anything.

My dream job is being a pianist.

I’ve got a terrible memory – I end up repeating myself quite a lot. The only thing I can remember is that I’m going to repeat myself!

I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was by myself.

I don’t know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

Last year I couldn’t even have a date,but now it seems that girls have changed their opinion about me.

I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.

[about the showbiz lifestyle] It’s all too much trouble for me. It’s probably because I’m fat and lazy and old.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

No, I don’t talk to Carly – that’s sort of the point about divorce.

The trouble is now, with rock’n’roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.

I’d probably say I’m very strong. If somebody says something horrible, I’m like, ‘Okay, whatever.

That is not a functional use of language. That is a drunk driver crashing a pickup truck full of alphabet soup.

[On singing in Walk the Line] The director came to us and he said “No, I really want you guys to learn to sing. To learn to play instruments and I want you to record an album”. and that is what… and I just absolutely was just gob-smacked and I said .. “I don’t know. I can’t do that.” And he said “Well I want you to try.” Now that’s the thing for me. If someone asks me to try, I will always try.

I’ve gotten to a point with fashion where I just don’t care. I wear and I do what I want because I like it, because I am confident in it, because it makes me feel good. That’s the only way you can do it.

It’s nice to come home to what’s real.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!