Robert Pattinson Quotes

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

I get recognized more for my 'Lip Sync Battle' than I do for being Spider-Man.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.

I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League.' When that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.

To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

If people liked seeing me in loverboy roles, I don't intend to break that.