Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is an English actor. Noted for his versatile roles in both big-budget and independent films, Pattinson has been ranked among the world’s highest-paid actors. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and he was featured in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. These Robert Pattinson quotes will motivate you.
Best Robert Pattinson Quotes
- “I was only given this life because I’m strong enough to live it.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I see love as an evolution of true friendship.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “If you find a girl who reads, keeps her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea (coffee) and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real because, for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “Girls, you know it’s all just a game to them, relationships. Just go around stomping on everyone…. I mean, look at this poor guy in the background with his collar up. You know he’s just gonna get ruined by women.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I prefer to be someone who has to confront his many fears instead of someone who has the illusion he doesn’t fear anything” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.” ~ Robert 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.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “People who are the most normal are probably the most crazy.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “When you read the [Twilight series], it’s like saying ‘Edward Cullen is so beautiful I creamed myself. I mean every line is like that. He’s the most ridiculous person who’s so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn’t do it. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that’s how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he’s a 108-year old virgin, so there’s clearly some issues there” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“Nothing can be good if you do it for money or for fame.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman… I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I learned that if a relationship is honest, it can last through anything despite all the challenges we have to face and everything that happens around us.” ~ Robert Pattinson Quotes
- “Twilight fans are literally on the verge of being clinically insane.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn’t consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“The link between my brain and my mouth is just not there anymore.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “In public, I hardly ever show feelings. That’s what happens when everything you do is put under a magnifying glass. But if you’ve spent some time hiding behind your public mask, and you’re back in your own environment, then all that suppressed emotions still has to be set loose. As a result, you are going to behave like a nutcase. I think that’s why so many people who are famous go nuts.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I’m always shocked by the people who I’m attracted to. It’s always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah, that’s pretty much my only prerequisite.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I’m boring. I stay home, watch TV, and eat a lot of fast food. That’s really exciting, isn’t it?” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I can’t say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“I haven’t found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I was quite intimidated by Ralph Fiennes. I didn’t really talk to him while I was doing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the only thing I did with him was when he stepped on my head. Then I went to this play and he was there. And this girl said, “you’ve worked with Ralph Fiennes haven’t you, Robert?” and I was like, “well, no…” and Ralph said, “yes, I stepped on your head.” And that was the extent of our conversation.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as ‘Claudia’!” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I can’t remember who said it, but a soul and a heaven must exist because good people aren’t rewarded enough on Earth. I always liked that idea, if that makes sense.” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“I want to strangle whoever invented that R-Patz thing.” ~ Robert 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, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “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.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “What worries me the most is that I don’t know when my patience will run out, when I’ll finally do something really stupid. Wait and see.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I might go to some tiny little town in Idaho with, like, three people living there.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I’m trying to make something every time that feels new and surprises people. Hopefully at least one person. But it’s not like I turn it off. I don’t make a movie and then go back to my normal life. When I’m finishing one movie the next day I’m thinking about the next one.” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“I hate people who cry around me. I’m not friends with them anymore. Especially girls. Cuz girls are crying all the time. It’s like, ‘Shut up.'” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “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.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “Sometimes I think, ‘To hell with acting’ and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I don’t think anyone can understand what’s happening. Something like this is so rare. It’s a mix of chance and coincidence. 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” ~ Robert Pattinson Quotes
- “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.” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“I think that’s just a general English attitude [being abusive]. I did the same thing to famous people.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “It’s not necessarily that satisfying getting monetary success, but sometimes it keeps the door open to make what you want to make.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I’m the same, when in reality I’m not.” ~ Robert 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.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in trouble for it, I got suspended for doing it. For saving the snails I kept about four or five hundred of them at the back of the class — in Snail Land. We were like six or seven or something, people didn’t even realise what they were doing. I had a strange compassion for snails. And the teacher just chucked them all in the trash in the end.” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog. My relationship with my dog, it’s ridiculous.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “It’s been amazing to play the same character through so many adventures. And it’s so strange because my life has changed so much over these years, but ‘Twilight’ and Edward Cullen will always be a part of me. It’s been my whole life. My whole 20s. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I don’t want people to hate me. I basically do whatever I want. But one of the aspects of what I want is, I want people to like me!” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I think pretty much all people who love each other had some kind of thing at first sight. I mean, there has to be some kind of moment where you, like, feel a different energy around someone.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “When I was 17 until, I don’t know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would achieve success, which involved making decisions. I saw myself picking up the phone and saying ‘Absolutely not’ or ‘Definitely yes.’ Having control. Except you have to figure out whether the way you think at 19 or 20 has any value. And eventually I understood, with all that control, which was probably illusory, I wasn’t progressing. So now I’m relinquishing a bit. I’ll be a tiny bit naked.” ~ Robert 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.” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I’m like, ‘Whoa, I’m so cool.'” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I was at a small private school in London. I wasn’t very academic. My dad said to me, ‘OK, you might as well leave, since you’re not working very hard’. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I’d have to pay my own fees, then he’d pay me back if I got good grades.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “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.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I remember when I was a teenager thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling myself up. Pretending to cry. It was totally illegitimate-I actually didn’t feel anything. I went to some pub and then went crying all the way home. And I got into my dog’s bed. I was crying and holding on to the dog. I woke up in the morning, and the dog was looking at me like, ‘You’re a fake.'” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “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.” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“I will keep that a secret as it was so indecent I doubt she was in her normal state of mind when she made it.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I’ve never met anyone who’s left a comment on anything. It’s just demons who live in basements.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don’t know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “Xavier would be such a great burger. He’s all covered in spread.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I kind of wish people didn’t know who I am, that I could just lie, say I’m a speechwriter for Obama. This is what I said before Twilight. And then Obama came along and picked up all these young writers. I found out this guy, Jon Favreau — who’s not the actor Jon Favreau — is writing for him. And I was like, wow, I wonder if the people who thought I was bullshitting at the time are like, ‘Oh my god. That guy! That kid who was drunk in some bar actually wrote the health care bill!’” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“It’s funny now, trying to socialize with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I’m really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I`m terrified of crossing streets. I’m also very accident-prone…I think people aim for me.” ~ Robert Pattinson Quotes
- “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?'” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I want to be with my wife. Sitting on a deckchair, sipping some tea, and reading books in a retirement home, in a beautiful and warm place. I’m a romantic guy.” ~ Robert Pattinson
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“Umm thanks for the phone. I think I already broke it.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I have been playing the piano for my entire life – since I was three.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she’s a songwriter.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a world that is both funny and abrasive. I’d love to play John Self, the depraved hero, who’s without illusions, he created.” ~ Robert Pattinson
- “I was really unfit last year, so I worked out for a long time, then spent time by myself in Oregon. For about two months the only person I saw was my trainer. Every day I did a lot of running and I just didn’t want to talk to anyone for two months. So when I started talking again, it was like you would communicate wrongly, like you wouldn’t really remember how to speak. That was one of the key things as well as just reading the book, reading the script a million times, just figuring things out.” ~ Robert Pattinson
