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Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm not a method guy. I can't be bothered to have a method. I just want to be a part of a good movie and I can't stand to be surrounded by morons.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I make faces for cash and chicken.
— Robert Downey Jr.
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
— Robert Downey Jr.
The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
— Robert Downey Jr.
You know, when you're part of a comedic duo, you can take breaks. It's kind of like having a partner that is good with a kid.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?
— Robert Downey Jr.
I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals
— Robert Downey Jr.
I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude,
— Robert Downey Jr.
And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.
— Robert Downey Jr.
All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I really don't want to thank my wife because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that'd be.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.
— Robert Downey Jr.
When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I don't want to be so confident in myself.
— Robert Downey Jr.
People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds,
— Robert Downey Jr.
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I take some pride in ... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.
— Robert Downey Jr.
And last but not the least
— Robert Downey Jr.
Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.
— Tom Hiddleston
'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.
— Robert Downey Jr.
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.
— Robert Downey Jr.
There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.
— Robert Downey Jr.
A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
— Robert Downey Jr.
It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal
— Robert Downey Jr.
There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.
— Stephen Rodrick
I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
— Robert Downey Jr.
If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work.
— Robert Downey Jr.
If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.
— Robert Downey Jr.
The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.
— Robert Downey Jr.
In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.
— Robert Downey Jr.
It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.
— Robert Downey, Sr.
If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
— Robert Downey Jr.
It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.
— Robert Downey Jr.
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.
— Robert Downey Jr.
At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
— Tom Hiddleston
Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
— Robert Downey Jr.
You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."
— Robert Downey Jr.
I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change,
— Robert Downey Jr.
The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
— David Letterman
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I could deal with this [Pokemon] if I smoked a couple of grams of blacktar heroin.
— Robert Downey, Sr.
After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.
— Robert Downey, Sr.
Give me a scotch, I'm starving.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"
— Robert Downey Jr.
Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.
— Robert Downey Jr.
I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Acting is always a challenge.
— Robert Downey Jr.
To me, friendship means loving tolerance.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.
— Robert Downey Jr.