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" I don't want to be so confident in myself. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Want
Confident
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" 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. "
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" I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot. "
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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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" 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. "
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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 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 just never wanted to be the creepy guy where people say, 'Why do his leading ladies keep getting younger and younger, and why do they think he's so hot even though we know that the girl who's playing this part actually has a handsome boyfriend?' "
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" I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood. "
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" 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? "
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" Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff. "
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" I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. "
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" 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. "
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" I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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