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" Acting is always a challenge. "

" Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? "

" Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way. "

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

" 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 always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor. "

" 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. "

" If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers. "

" I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative. "

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

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

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

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

" I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio. "

" 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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