Tuesday, September 29 2009, 12:18 BST

By Lara Martin, US Correspondent

Robert Pattinson has insisted that he is not interested in being a celebrity.

The 23-year-old has become a tabloid favourite since taking on the role of vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight franchise.

Speaking to AnOther Man magazine, he said: "Annoyingly, there are so few parts I feel I can add anything to, or that I want to do.

"I don't want to be an actor for the sake of it. I don't find any particular pleasure in being an attention seeker."

He went on to say that he had no idea the Twilight saga would be so successful at the box-office, explaining: "It's strange because even though the figures show that the books were successful and sold millions of copies, you couldn't even buy them in London.

"I tried a couple of bookshops and they weren't available. Hardly anyone I knew had read them apart from one girl, a friend of my sister. I had no idea at all."

He added: "I'd seen Kristen Stewart in Into the Wild and some of the director Catherine Hardwicke's other films, and that's all I thought it was, something really small."

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