During this round of endless Breaking Dawn promotion, Robert Pattinson stopped by the “Late Show with David Letterman.” Beforehand, he posed outside the Ed Sullivan theater with some fans and signed autographs too. As always, Robert is much better in motion, and photographs rarely do him justice. It certainly doesn’t help matters that he tends to do this when the flashbulbs go off:

During the interview itself, Robert was his usual self-effacing and adorable self and made a reference to My Little Pony while discussing his sparkling vampire character, Edward Cullen:

On New Yorkers: “People in New York are a little more vocal than other places. It’s funny. They’ve got some dirty mouths, which is kind of great because it makes it exciting after you’ve done it a few times. You want anything, you want people to attack you.”

On Dealing With The Frenzy: “People screaming at me and stuff? I mean … It feels like job security in a funny sort of way.”

On Disguising Himself: “I attempt to — it doesn’t particularly work ever. I started off just trying to make strange expressions, but that’s not a particularly good tactic. You try and get little tics and things. You try and draw attention to the wrong part of your body, but that doesn’t realy work at all. The best disguise is repellant.”

On Edward Cullen’s Missing Sparkles: “There’s a big sequence of the movie in Brazil where for whatever reason, because Brazil is obviously very sunny, I could not possibly explain to you why I’m not sparkling. It’s sort of a glaring continuity error.”

See, here’s the difference between the Sparkler and Kristen Stewart. Whereas the latter compares the trappings of fame to being raped, the former sees the hassles merely as a sign of job security. This is why we can’t help but love the guy.

As for Breaking Dawn itself, I begrudgingly admit that I’ll end up watching this crap in the theater and more than tolerating the experience. However, I can at least (in public) blame it on my daughter, who will be receiving IMAX tickets for a birthday present. Shhhh — don’t tell her about it just yet. I’m trying to avoid the joyous screaming as long as humanly possible.

Photos courtesy of WENN