Robert Pattinson is the gift that keeps on giving! Much like our ongoing series “Kit Harington Says Words,” I kind of hope that Sparkles never stops speaking. Last week, NME released some excerpts of Pattinson’s cover story, including his interesting thoughts about his fandom and what he really thinks of the racist internet trolls talking trash about his girlfriend. NME released the full interview – go here to read the whole thing. The best quotes were already released, but there are a handful of interesting pieces of info/quotes. Like, Florence Welch introduced Sparkles and Twigs. Sparkles calls Twigs “just an amazing, amazing artist.” Here’s a bit more:

It took him a while to find his voice as an artist: “It’s taken me a really long time to find out what my voice is or even if I had the right to say anything at all Even at school, when my drama teacher told me, ‘I don’t think you should do the creative subjects’, that had a massive impact on me, and I had to go to an out-of-school drama club because I didn’t feel like I was worthy of the school play. A lot of people, when they’re really young, tend to be like, ‘I’ve got something to say and I want everyone to hear it!’ But I’ve never wanted anyone to hear what I’m saying, because it’s probably stupid.”

The studio bosses were mad at him during the Twilight era: “I thought you could be funny and tell jokes and be yourself, but they were like, ‘No, you can’t do interviews like that.’ I fought really hard to hold on to my identity when all of that started happening.”

He hates being photographed: “You begin to feel like your face is fake, like it doesn’t really represent you anymore.”

His constant whining: “If you complain, they’ll say, ‘He doesn’t deserve to work!’ Talk to certain actors about it and they’ll say, ‘Why don’t you just stop acting if you hate it so much?’”

What he thinks of the Twilight era: It was “something that ended up being quite helpful. Most people, throughout their 20s, really struggle with knowing what they want to do. I was living a massively accelerated life, compacting a billion different experiences, having to comprehend so many different things… there was definitely a bad side, but it was fun. It was an adrenaline rush.”

The kind of career he wants: “Is like Viggo Mortensen’s, or Joaquin Phoenix’s – they’re actors who approach things in a very honest and pure way. They’re not just banging out movies… [I want stuff] where I can look totally different, roughening myself up. In some ways, it looks like I’ve had a really lucky career, even though in my own head, whatever I’ve won, I’ve won in a very skewed way. But that’s just my own ridiculousness. It’s still just winning.”

[From NME]

The part where he talks about how the studio bosses told him to stop being himself was part of a conversation where he repeated his early joke during the beginning of the Twilight thing. The joke? That his hair was styled by the saliva of 12-year-old virgins. Which… is still a great line and he really should be proud of it, although it does make fun of the Twihards. As for his career goals… I could see how and why he would want to emulate the kind of career that Viggo Mortensen or Joaquin Phoenix have had, although I do kind of wonder if Sparkles will ever get there. He’s doing the right thing though, trying to toughen up and work with great directors and tamp down the pretty. He’s still so pretty though. He will always be a beautiful, sparkly vampire and he sounds like he’s sort of okay with that.

Photos courtesy of NME, WENN.