Robert Downey Jr. quotes - page 2

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. (Robert Downey Jr.)

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

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I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

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I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.

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

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But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

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It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

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

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[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.

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If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.'

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I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead. (Robert Downey Jr.)

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

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

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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.

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I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

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I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

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

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I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.

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

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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.

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There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own. (Robert Downey Jr.)

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

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

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

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I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

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