Robert Pattinson Quotes

The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

If there's a spotlight on you, people are going to look for a reason to bring you down.

People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

I wait for death and journalists.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

People are more willing to dislike your music and want to find faults in you when you are given opportunities like in my case. But I think in my case, people love my work and that's why I have to work doubly hard.

All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

To be honest, when I can feel that a lot of people are watching me, I get a little scared, but at the same time, it inspires me.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

I guess the best thing about having a successful record like this is, like, I know I'm at least good for another five years, like, before everyone starts to like - all the haters start to come out again. And that's really what it is.

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.