“My favorite teacher was probably my English teacher because she got me into writing instead of just answering the question. I used to hand in homework with 20 pages of nonsense and she’d still mark it. She was a really amazing teacher [talking about his favorite teacher].”


“We didn’t have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well – I used to take everyone’s chips [talking about school experiences]!”


“[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 [talking about his grades in school].”


“If I was a little girl I’d be like (puts on high voice) WHAT! [talking negatively about his appearance]”


“Spiderman. I like the outfit; I like a little bit of spandex [his hero].”


“Are they? Christ, I don’t know. [He laughs.] I didn’t know I have big feet. Size 10, I think. I’m quite tall, though. That’s another thing I can add to my list of inadequacies or over-adequacies [responding to a fan question about his "huge feet"].”


“Until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as ‘Claudia’.


“I hope I’m not that close to my character. I hate him. I used to hate everybody like Cedric in my school [discusses if he thinks he is like his character Cedric Diggory].”


“I still trip over my feet and stuff when I’m not supposed to be doing anything.”


“I went to one of these signing conventions. It was one of the most interesting experiences I’ve had. It was so strange that people would pay for autographs. You keep thinking you should do a little dance for them as well or something.”


“Sorry about my appearance. You’ve caught me on a dead day [he said this to a fan on the set of "Twilight"].”


“I am now determined to do really weird parts but I think I overdo it in auditions so nobody really trusts me!”


“It is my first experience at Comic Con. I mean, I’m kind of terrified. They said there’s like 6,000 people.” [Referring to his first Twilight-fan 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 for me kept growing and growing and growing.”


“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’m just a big, hard tool.”


“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.”


“I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like, ‘How did that happen?’ I don’t even remember buying them. I also like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My addictions are pretty much the only things I consume.”


“If I go and try to watch a movie by myself I’ll be completely transfixed the whole time, concentrating one hundred percent. But if I’m with another person on a date or something, within two minutes I’ll be like ‘This is rubbish, this is rubbish. We should leave and do something else.’ I don’t really know why.”


“I don’t even have people’s phone numbers. I almost don’t want to have a girlfriend, in this environment.”


“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.”


“I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you’re young because you’re probably going to mess it up.”


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


“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.”


“I hate my name. I hate any reference to my name. I wish people would completely invent a new one.”


“I’d like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.”


“When I was entering the building, I saw a girl, and she was so baffled by me; she just looked so underwhelmed. I’m like, “Don’t worry. I get that all the time.”


“….then it turns into hell. Like all kisses do.”


“Who have I always wanted to play? Batman would be really cool, but Batman is a boring guy; like, Bruce Wayne is kind of boring. I haven’t seen the ["Dark Knight"] yet, but in the comics he was always straight-laced. Spider-Man was quite cool, but he had to be a geek. And then there was Superman. But I always liked Gambit from “X-Men.”


“Write a book! How many times do I have to tell you do not be an actor!”


“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.”


“Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.”


“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.”


“I wear a hat a lot. I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and 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 [the studio rep], “If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?”


“If you don’t wash it (the hair) for six weeks you won’t have to wash it ever again. Until it gets unbearable.”


Interviewer: What is the one thing that you cant live without?
Kristen Stewart: My cat. I love him. I couldn’t live without him.
Robert: Cats die.
Kristen: I know cats die.
Rob: They don’t even live very long. You’ve only got a few years left.


“I don’t really see the point in washing your hair. If you don’t care if your hair’s clean or not then why would you wash it?”


“I read that and thought it was such bullshit. I was like, ‘God, I sound like such a loser!’ Well, I do sometimes. I used to a lot more before and then … I only look at the negative stuff. I just want to know whoever’s saying negative stuff, and I just want to remember their names. I write it all down in my black book.”


“He [Zac Efron] looks like he smells really good [laughs]. I also do shower.”


“There’s this thing about my supposed girlfriend,” he says. “There’s this one girl who’s consistently mentioned. It’s like, ‘He’s dating this Brazilian model.’ ” “Yes,” he says. “What’s her name—Annelyse. I’ve never met her.”


“We don’t have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well – I used to take everyone’s chips!”


“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.’”


Returning from the Nibelungs shoot, four months later, with the offer of Harry Potter in the bag, he sat down to take his A-levels with two weeks to spare, and landed himself an A and two Bs. ‘I don’t know how that happened. I didn’t even know half the syllabus. I lost faith in the exam system at that point.’


“It’s insane,” Pattinson told MTV News in an exclusive interview from the [Oscars] red carpet before the ceremony. “When they first told me about this, I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no, you’re joking — or I’m going to have to do something really stupid like get gunged [slimed]!”


“The only way to establish any kind of mystique,” he says, “is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I’m contractually obligated not to shut up.”


“I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I’ll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I’m sure the rest of my life will be ruined.”


“[At the Academy Awards - 2009] I had to become a vampire to find the right woman.”


“I feel like most of the time for the past few months I’m pretty much working every time I get out of the house, working or not, so I might as well be working,” he says. “I’m always in work mode. Just in case someone comes up to you, you’ve got to have your game face on.”


“I go through [fan mail] myself. But I think I might get them censored, because I’m always expecting to get the one thing that says, ‘I know where you live and I’m going to kill you!”


“I just think people require things of me whenever there’s a screaming crowd, and I always think I won’t be able to provide what they want, so that’s why I look scared all the time.”


“And he admits to reading it [gossip], which is the really weird part. He reads the gossip blogs and the Twilight fan fiction (“It’s surprisingly hard-core. And very well written”).”


“[On the obsession of Fame] “Well, I think we’ve actually all gone a little bit mad,” he said. “It’s everywhere, not just here. I suppose I should understand it better by this point, but I really don’t.”


“I’m always really worried about ruining their lives. Especially with people that aren’t famous. It’s such a massive change. I’m kind of a paranoid wreck. I’ve eaten a lot of room service.”


“[On the Twilight Hysteria] “It’s a weird experience,” he concedes, “and you do tend to start getting a little bit paranoid about stuff. Looking around when you’re walking down the street, in case you get mobbed by teenage girls!”


“So many people have watched Twilight or heard about it, you can be sitting anywhere and the chances are someone will come up and recognise you.” This, he adds, included coming out of a sandwich shop in Yorkshire, and being accosted by the only person on an otherwise empty street and being asked for a photo. “How can you have immediate recognition in Guisborough coming out of Benjis?” he giggles. “That was very strange!”


“[On Gossip concerning his love life] “I don’t really care about it,” he shrugs. “I have the same little set of friends and I don’t have anyone who would really get affected adversely [by false rumours]. Every single person who they sort of romantically link me to… I just don’t even really know anyone. So it doesn’t really affect me that much.” Is there any truth to the persistent rumour hooking him up with Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart? “Er, no,” he states. “I don’t understand where that even comes from.”


“[Harry Potter Fame] But you know you’re gonna be a heart-throb! “I don’t know. Maybe. I don’t know. I’m quite immature so that’s quite good, so I prefer to be a heart-throb.”


“I was in a Blockbuster on the day it was being released. I had forgotten it was being released that day. There were two families who had come with eight- or nine-year old-daughters to get their DVD. They were standing in the line crying and I stood watching what all this commotion was about. They didn’t know I was there or anything. I was just thinking “Wow, you’re crying about a DVD.” It’s fascinating.”


“[On Fan Encounters] In a lot of ways they are all quite similar. The funny thing is that I’m always going around trying to look as inconspicuous as possible I find that people are always really disappointed when they actually recognize me. They are like ‘”Oh! At first I thought you were a bum but then I realized who you were.”


“It’s quite stressful in a way, but it’s only when you’re by yourself. When I have my friends around it doesn’t make any difference. I just spend a lot of time by myself, and I used to walk around the block by myself in various different cities, and I don’t know, you start to feel a bit vulnerable, I guess. [Laughs] Well, not vulnerable, I don’t know … for paranoid people it does allow your imagination to run rampant, so it’s a little strange. You end up going out a lot less [laughs]. But I guess it’s so early now I’m really still thinking about it in terms of getting good jobs and stuff, so I haven’t really had a chance to be objective about my life, because every single day there’s something new happening in my life. In my eyes, everything just seems ridiculous, like every single day it’s like you’re walking on the street, and then suddenly you step on something and it just starts moving really, really fast, and you’re not entirely sure what direction it’s going in, but you can feel the force of it. That’s about it.”


“[On Visiting Fan Sites]I’m aware of them but it would be so easy to be obsessed with that stuff and then not do anything else – which I did do for a time!”


“The weird thing is that because you’re at the eye of the storm, you don’t notice what’s going on. But when there are eight-year-old girls standing there trembling and crying, that’s a very strange thing to be a part of.”


“In England if you want to look rough, you go out and get really drunk and come in looking really hungover, but if you do that in America, it’s like, “Have you got a drinking problem?”‘ His publicist nods. The boy is learning fast.”


“There isn’t really like a pub [culture] in L.A. It’s just a very different culture. I think people from L.A. don’t really understand how it’s such a normal thing to be in pubs from a very young age in London. people [in America] just think it’s so strange. Like drinking has such a stigma attached to it here. I’ve never really understood it. It seems so normal to me.”


“I just say the first thing that comes into my head,” he said, “out of nervousness. During interviews I’m literally shitting my pants. I don’t want there to be a silence, because I’ll start crying.”


“At times Pattinson sounds grown-up, but he also lapses into adolescent silliness. Ask if he has a fake hotel name and the giggling starts: “I was Clive Handjob in Paris. Everyone in the hotel called me ‘Monsieur Handjob’. That was good, cheap fun.”