Robert Downey Jr. Quotes
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Robert Downey Jr. on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.
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.
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.
Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.
I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.
I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.
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,
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.
Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.
I take some pride in ... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.
Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.
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.
I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
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.
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
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.
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.
Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.
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.
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.
At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.
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.
I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.
I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.
In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.
I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.
Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.
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.