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Robert Pattinson has revealed that he almost gave up on the whole acting thing before rising to fame in The Twilight Saga, as vampire Edward Cullen.

Now, he says that he’s been persuaded that being an actor in major motion pictures isn’t such a bad career choice, after all. In a new interview, he said, “I’m still trying to figure out where I am but it’s been fun. I didn’t even know if I was going to continue acting before this happened. I have much more drive and passion for it than I ever did before.”

He previously revealed that he was worried that he wouldn’t fulfill any expectations of himself. He said, “After the last one comes out, you can kind of have two failures – and they’d better be low budget failures. Because if you have one big-budget failure, you’re pretty much done in this environment.”

He went on to say, “It’s different from Kristen, for example. She doesn’t think about it like that at all, because she grew up gradually, doing independent movies and stepping up the ladder, whereas I was doing progressively smaller movies in England after Harry Potter.”

He added, “I’m not just another actor who’s around a jobbing. When you hire me for a job, you’re hiring me. I’m not this ‘thing’ that’s supposed to be something. And if you then don’t fulfill that expectation, what the f**k are you?”

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