“[My character] Edward is the conflicted and reluctant vampire. He’s a poet, and very deep and profound. He’s just extraordinarily troubled.”


“I grew up watching American movies and stuff, so I’ve learned how to “act” from American films [developing Edward's American accent].”


“At the beginning, when I was doing the first couple scenes, I kept slipping into different actors. … During a really dramatic scene, you start doing Al Pacino [actor who inspired his Edward American accent].”


“It’s filling a void in my life…I need love. Your love. I think…I need something [responding to a fan question about being the hottest vampire/guy in the world]!”


“Charlie Chaplin? That’s not really a Comic-Con thing, actually, is it? What am I talking about? Maybe I just want to dress up as Charlie Chaplin [who he would have dressed up as at Comic Con as a fan].”


“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 [responding with sarcasm to a fans being there to see him].”


“I like the doll. The doll is cool. That’s what I really want. I want to have a little button in the back so you can do stuff. I’m looking forward to the doll more than the poster.”


“It’s bizarre. You kind of know that it is essentially the book. The book has so many obsessive, obsessively loyal fans. It’s strange because people just immediately relate you to the character right away rather than you as an actor. Everybody hated me at the beginning, universally. It is kind of weird. When you read the description of him, it says he’s so beautiful it hurts to look at him. I think it’s kind of difficult to act that so I wouldn’t really know how to go about doing it. I hope there’s been a lot of post production.” [Rob on the Twilight phenomenon]


“Oregon has the strangest weather stuff that happens, especially in the spring when we were shooting. It would be like sunny, snowing, raining and hailing at exactly the same time. Though it could be raining, there’d be no clouds in the sky and stuff. I don’t know, it was like fake weather.” [Rob on Oregon’s weather]


“I read them after my screen test. I’d never even heard of them before. Then we were doing the movie and it kind of got exponentially bigger and bigger and bigger and everybody knew about it, so it was kind of strange, unexpected.” [On the Twilight books]


“I mean, it’s completely [faithful]. The only difference is the action scenes aren’t really in the book because the book’s written from Bella’s perspective, and most of the time she’s either unconscious or everybody’s moving too quickly so they don’t know what’s going on. All the action stuff is put in so you can see it.” [On Twilight’s adaptation to film]


“I try to be nice to people and stuff but not really. That’s kind of what a lot of the story is about, Edward deciding to go against his kind of base instincts. He knows he’s a vampire and he knows what vampires do is go around killing people. That’s kind of the whole point in being a vampire. Denying that, it’s kind of boring. The other thing as well, the Cullens don’t act like superheroes at all which is really strange. They have all these super powers and they don’t go around helping people or saving anyone. They just want to have as normal life as possible. Literally I save Bella’s life and I could have saved some other people’s lives and I just don’t.” [On the Cullen’s lifestyle]


“I spent a long time trying to figure out how to play [Edward's part] without making a fool out of myself. The whole book is written from Bella’s perspective and she’s in love with him. I mean, the guy can be anybody — he could be an alien — and you see past everything if you’re in love with someone.”


“I realized that it’s just Bella saying that he’s so beautiful, and she’s in love with him and obsessed with him. He could be a piece of cheese and she’d say the same thing.”


“MTV: You’re about to head downstairs, where you’ll appear in front of 6,500 screaming Twilighters. What’s your game plan?
Pattinson: Umm … try not to wet my pants? Try to be the tiniest bit as articulate as I can? Try not to look like I’m crazy? I don’t know if I’m even capable of doing any of those things.”


“I play Edward Cullen in Twilight, who’s the kind of semi-reluctant vampire. He’s 108 years old, maybe 109 this year I think. He’s stuck in the body of 17-year-old school kid pretending to be a human. He’s a semi-reluctant vampire, pretty much 100 years, he wants to either die or become a human again. Then he meets what becomes the love of his life who’s a mortal girl called Bella. He falls in love with her. The story is the problems, the trials and tribulations which occur when a vampire falls in love with a normal girl who he wants to kill all the time.”


“I read them after my screen test. I’d never even heard of them before. Then we were doing the movie and it kind of got exponentially bigger and bigger and bigger and everybody knew about it, so it was kind of strange, unexpected.”


“It’s bizarre. You kind of know that it is essentially the book. The book has so many obsessive, obsessively loyal fans. It’s strange because people just immediately relate you to the character right away rather than you as an actor. Everybody hated me at the beginning, universally. It is kind of weird. When you read the description of him, it says he’s so beautiful it hurts to look at him. I think it’s kind of difficult to act that so I wouldn’t really know how to go about doing it. I hope there’s been a lot of post production.”


“When I first read the script and heard about the casting I was thinking, ‘This is impossible. This is physically impossible to play this part.’ I kind of preempted what everyone’s reaction would be. There was also a very real possibility that you could get so freaked out by having to look ‘beautiful’ all the time that you just end up doing the whole thing, like, pouting. Like, ‘Can I just cut all my lines and just stand still so you can shoot it really well?’”


“MTV: Welcome to Comic-Con, Rob. Have you had time yet to look out at all the people?
Robert Pattinson: No, I haven’t. I’m terrified that they’re all the hate-mail people [laughs], and I’m going to get killed.”


“The main thing I asked her is why Edward has accepted Carlisle as he has. He sometimes treats him as his father and sometimes as a sort of partner. I was just wondering why this 108-year-old guy would pretend to be a 17-year-old boy to someone who knows that he’s not 17. And she said that Edward has judged Carlisle to be a good enough person to deserve him acting like his son — which I thought was very interesting. It’s a very, very strange thing to do, if you have absolutely no relation to someone, and [to keep up the charade], just because they’ve stolen your soul against your will. Edward has found it within himself to forgive him to such an extent. There aren’t many scenes that show that, but I thought it was an interesting dynamic.”


“And she’s like ‘O dont care! I LOVE you. And it’s like..well! There’s definitely something wrong with her, and there’s very obviously something wrong with me!”


“I never saw it as a vampire. I saw it as a guy with something in him that makes him terrified of commitment. He is extremely passionate and has very little self-control. He is with a girl he can’t have a physical relationship with and she keeps tempting him.”


“Twilight’ is a metaphor for the virtues of chastity, but it’s had the opposite effect. I get letters that say “I’m going to kill myself if you don’t watch ‘High School Musical 2′ with me. It’s a little nuts.”


“I was like this chubby-looking … I looked kind of like an old, Irish alcoholic… I think they were getting desperate, so when I came [they said] “We’re tired of looking; Let’s take the next guy who walks in!” I think a lot of it was that. Yeah, how uncomfortable I felt trying to play this perfect guy, it kind of inspired my performance when I was in the room ’cause I had no idea how to play it. And I [was] this kind of broken, totally self-conscious person who hardly said anything. And I think they misinterpreted the whole thing, thinking I was this really intense, really passionate guy. And I just had no idea what I was doing.”


“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.”


“This is what I am… I don’t have a six-pack Bella!”


“I used to go to the gym for about five hours a day, but then I started losing so much weight. My head started to look really huge in comparison to the rest of my body. (Catherine Hardwicke) came up to me and said, ‘What are you doing to yourself?’” (To gain weight) I literally stopped exercising, he reveals. Eating a cheeseburger after two-and-a-half months of doing that – it tasted like ambrosia.”


“[On Edwards Immortality] I don’t want to live forever. You don’t die, so it doesn’t mean anything. And then everyone would lose respect for you. It’s like “Hancock.” Everybody would just be like, “It doesn’t mean anything if he’s invincible.”


“[On playing Edward] “If you are in love with someone, you can’t see any flaw in the other person. So I finally figured out I didn’t have to play the most beautiful man on the planet, but play a man in love.”


“[On dating Edward] He’s a vampire, he’s a social pariah. He’s not a role model. He’s a parasite. That’s the cool thing about it. I don’t think a vampire has any responsibility to anybody.”


“[Twilight Audition] I think a lot of it was that. Yeah, how uncomfortable I felt trying to play this perfect guy, it kind of inspired my performance when I was in the room ’cause I had no idea how to play it. And I [was] this kind of broken, totally self-conscious person who hardly said anything. And I think they misinterpreted the whole thing, thinking I was this really intense, really passionate guy. And I just had no idea what I was doing.”


“I’m not stiff as Edward,” “I want to have fun. “He’s this 108-year-old adult trapped inside a 17-year-old’s body, but I’m still a 6-year-old boy at heart.”


“I was completely expecting complaints from Twilight fans, that’s why I didn’t want to play the part in the first place. “Who could possibly play it apart from like Zac Efron?”


During the school cafeteria scene where an iconic apple bounces off Edward’s feet and into his hands:
“Wow, he’s a superhuman moron. He wears lipstick, has a little bouffant and does little circus acts.”


A make-out scene with his human girlfriend, Bella (Stewart):”
“I’ve got one of those butt chins” — explaining his usual stubble and beards off camera. During other pivotal scenes Pattinson pipes in to point out his “scraggly sideburns,” “effeminate hands,” “sculpted eyebrows” and a clueless “where am I?” gaze.”


In the forest, when Edward is warning Bella to stay away:
Edward: “Then ask me the most basic question, what do we eat?”
Robert (nasal voice): “Cheeseburgers!”


During the romantic prom dance in the gazebo, when Edward leans in toward Bella’s outstretched neck:”
“Pattinson: “I look like an animé character.”


“[Performing Stunts during Twilight]“The scariest one was when I run and I put my hand out to stop this car which is racing towards me. I had practiced it a bunch of times but the car is coming at 30 miles per hour. And I was sick on the day of shooting. I had taken antibiotics and I was really dozy and the car went off its tracks. So there I am, holding Kristen Stewart’s stunt double and my timing was off because I wasn’t feeling too good and the car hit me in the face.”