Robert Downey Jr. Quotes

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

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.

I make faces for cash and chicken.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

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.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude,

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.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

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 had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

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 don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.

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 guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.

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'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive.

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

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 know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

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.

And last but not the least

I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.

Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.

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.

There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.

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.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

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.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

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.

If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.

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.

I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.

I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."

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.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.

Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.

I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.

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.

It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff.

In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.

To me, friendship means loving tolerance.

Acting is always a challenge.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.

I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.

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.

Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change,

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.

Give me a scotch, I'm starving.

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

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?"

'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.