Robert Pattinson

Trivia

• Robert Thomas Pattinson is an English actor, model and musician.
• He is best known for playing Edward Cullen in the film adaptation of Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer, and for the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
• He loves to watch American Idol and X Factor.
• Robert's celebrity crush is Kristen Stewart, his Twilight costar.
• He appears in Teen People's December '05/January '06 issue, in "What's Next."
• Robert remains close friends with his Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire co-stars Stanislav Ianevski and Katie Leung.
• He was once in a band called 'The Bad Girls'.
• He had to learn how to scuba dive for his role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
• He describes himself as "immature."
• Robert hadn't read any of the Harry Potter books before he landed the role of Cedric; however, he caught up after he was cast! He read the novel version of the movie in two days flat after that.

Quotes

• "Someone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them - they're like my trademark shoes now!"
• "Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a turning point as I moved to a mixed school and then I became cool and discovered hair gel. "
• "I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning £10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15."
• "I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!" On his first red carpet experience
• "It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything at the moment, I was just kind of aimlessly wandering around London and these two guys who were about 30 came up and asked for my autograph. I was really quite proud at the time, and they wanted to take photos and stuff. And then they were sort of wandering around and I was kind of wandering around and I bumped into them about three times, and every single time their respect
• "Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting,' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop, acting is much cooler."
• "I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me! "
• "Thats the worst thing, I dont really care if people say I'm a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he's ugly thats just like "oh.. really?"
• "I've changed so much. I'm not nearly as cocky as I was, I was a real prat for the first month. I didn't talk to anyone. I just drank coffee and told everyone I was 24 and this famous theatre actor just back from South Africa."
• "I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love 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's kind of stuck with me."