15 most interesting Robert Pattinson quotes

English actor Robert Pattinson celebrates his birthday on May 13th. He gained worldwide fame thanks to the sensational Twilight trilogy, and now crowds of girls around the world are going crazy for him.

Our post is for those who want not only to once again look at one of the main movie beauties of the new generation, but also to “listen” to what he says.

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1. “My old agent introduced me as the male version of Keira Knightley. I then thought - I wonder what exactly this says about me? That I stick out my lips a lot or something? In the photo: Robert Pattinson with his love on the screen and in the life of Kristen Stewart in the third part of the vampire saga “Twilight. Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)

2. “Until the age of 12, my sister dressed me up as a girl and introduced me to Claudia. At 12, my life took a turn - I entered a mixed-education school for boys and girls, became cool and discovered hair gel. Pictured: Pattinson on the red carpet at the UK premiere of Remember Me, which was released in theaters on March 12, 2010. (Joel Ryan / AP)

3. “My father and I were sitting in a restaurant one day and noticed a group of pretty girls. They said they were attending a local acting school. I never studied acting in my school - I was too shy, but after that my father insisted that I go to study acting. Even said he would pay me. It was very strange, but I went." In the photo: a frame from the movie "Remember Me", where Pattinson's partners were the star of the series "Lost" Emilie de Ravin, who played his love, and Pierce Brosnan, who played his father. The film is a romantic drama about the tragedy of finding a new meaning in life. (Summit Entertainment)

4. “I think the world would be a much better place if the paparazzi followed all those bankers and billionaires.” In the photo: a frame from the second part of the vampire saga "Twilight" - "New Moon", which was released in November 2009. (Photo: Kimberley French /)

5. “After the release of Twilight, life became much more intense. It was hard to deal with what was happening to me. But fame is such a thing – you cannot fight it, it is useless, you cannot avoid it. If this is not what you wanted and what you have been striving for all your life, you can simply not care about her. Pictured: a fan at the New Moon premiere in Munich in November 2009. (Alexandra Beier/Getty Images)

6. “Please don't give me all the success I've been given right now. It's better to stretch it. I don't mind waiting. Stretch it out to seventy years…” Pictured: Pattinson and producer Harvey Weinstein (right) at the Cinema Against AIDS charity event in May 2009. The actor put up an unusual lot at a charity auction - his kiss. As a result, the "lot" went to two customers - $ 27,600 each. (Matt Sayles/AP)

7. “I didn’t want to be stuck in the same role playing cute school kids. I knew I would turn into a caricature. The role of Dali was a turning point for me. This is the first role that required really serious thinking. During filming, I was completely obsessed with Dali and read everything I could find about his biography. He was the strangest and most complex person, but in the end, I felt that I could compare myself to him. In fact, he was incredibly shy." Pictured: Pattinson in Echoes of the Past as a young Salvador Dali who finds his sexual freedom with poet Frederico Garcia Lorca, played by Javier Beltran. In an interview with GQ magazine, Pattinson also said that during the filming of the expressive interludes, the entire film crew just laughed. (Regent Releasing)

8. "Twilight" is a metaphor for the virtue of chastity, but the saga had the exact opposite effect. I got emails saying, "I'm going to kill myself if you don't watch TV with me." It's already crazy."

9. “I was a bit of a loner in school. My first kiss happened when I was 12, but I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 18." Pictured: Pattinson and Stewart received the "Best Kiss" award for "Twilight" at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards in May. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)

10. “I have been playing the piano all my life since I was 3 or 4 years old. And on the classical guitar - somewhere from 5 to 12. Then I didn't play the guitar for many years. Only 4-5 years ago I took it out again and just started playing the blues. I'm not a very good player, but not bad either. I even perform with a band in London." Pictured: In the 2008 teen comedy "Public Age," Pattinson plays a young poet and musician who invites the writer to live with him and his parents. The actor plays guitar and piano and composes his own music, and three songs of his own composition were featured on the film's original soundtrack.

11. “My favorite teacher was probably the English teacher, because she taught me to write, not just answer a question. I brought her homework on 20 sheets of nonsense, but she still gave me grades for it. She was a really amazing teacher." Pictured: Pattinson in the 2007 drama The Bad Mother's Diary, filmed for TV based on the novel of the same name by Kate Long. The actor played Daniel, a modest teenager with bad hair who falls in love with a strange girl. (ITV)

12. “I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love every aspect of him. I used to try to imitate him in everything I did, I don't even know why. I saw the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was 13 and started dressing like him. Tried to mimic his accent. He did everything the way he did." Pictured: Pattinson in the 2006 TV movie Toby Jugg's Chaser, based on the novel of the same name by Denis Wheatley. The actor played the young pilot Toby Jagg, who is sent to a mansion in Wales for rehabilitation after being injured in combat. However, there he begins to suspect that his psychiatrist's methods are not entirely "reasonable". (E1 Entertainment)

13. “The day before the premiere of Harry Potter, I just sat in Leicester Square and was happy, ignored by everyone around. And all of a sudden strangers are screaming my name. Marvelous". In the photo: Pattinson "broke" into the film industry in 2005 thanks to the film "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", in which he played Cedric Diggory. The English newspaper "The Times" named him "breakthrough of the year" for this role of a young wizard, in which he also performed in the film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

14. About his nickname R-Pattz: "I would like to break the hands and mouth of the person who came up with this." Pictured: Pattinson's first role in a film based on the nomadic legend that inspired J. Tolkien to write his famous Lord of the Rings trilogy. The actor played Giselher, the king's brother, in the 2004 film Der Ring des Nibelungen. (Sony Pictures)

15. “Sometimes I think to hell with it, it's acting. And then I understand that I could work, for example, in a shoe store. Acting is much more fun."