Robert Pattinson has not shied away from admitting how close he came to quitting show business, fed up with endless auditions and persistent unemployment.
“Literally the day before I auditioned [for 'Twilight'], I was going to quit acting ’cause I never got any jobs,” Pattinson said last fall. “So I guess that’s not really quitting, when you’re not really getting any jobs. It’s just surrendering to fate.”
Fate, so it seemed, had other plans for the British heartthrob, who went on not only to become the smoldering vampire at the center of the “Twilight” franchise but an executive producer on “Remember Me” and the upcoming co-star of A-listers like Uma Thurman and Reese Witherspoon. But the lessons of those early struggles continue to stay with Pattinson and inform his decision-making process to this day.
“Professionally, as soon as you start thinking about the choices you’re making in terms of the future, in terms of your career, you start doing it out of fear,” he told MTV News. “If you’re doing it for your career, just choosing jobs because you want to have a job after that, you’re not actually choosing…
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