Robert Pattinson is terrified of breaking down in interviews.

Robert Pattinson is terrified of breaking down in interviews.

The ‘Twilight’ heartthrob gets stricken by nerves whenever he has to
speak about himself and wishes he could stay out of the spotlight when
he isn’t making movies.

He said: ‘During interviews I’m incredibly nervous. I don’t want there
to be a silence, because I’ll start crying out of nervousness. I just
say the first thing that comes into my head. But the only way to
establish any kind of mystique is to completely shut up and never talk
to anyone. Unfortunately, I have to. It’s in my contract.’

The 23-year-old star – who is dating his ‘Twilight’ co-star Kristen
Stewart – hates watching himself on screen because he always feels
like a “fraud” who is ill at ease with his emotions.

He explained to Live magazine: “I took my mother to the ‘Twilight’
premiere and squirmed through the first ten minutes. But in the end I
couldn’t bear it, so I had to leave and went out and sat in the car.

“I hate watching myself on screen, because I’m constantly worried that
I’ll look like a fraud. Even before I started acting, I was constantly
thinking I was faking my emotions. I remember when I was a teenager
thinking my girlfriend was cheating on me, and going around riling
myself up, pretending to cry. It was totally illegitimate – I actually
didn’t feel anything.”