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" I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Childhood
Go
Really
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience. "
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" I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive. "
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" Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks. "
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" Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think. "
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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'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'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now. "
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" I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead. "
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" I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin. "
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" I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done. "
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Moving Forward
Think
" In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them. "
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Movies
People
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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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Day
Morning
Myself
" I don't want to be so confident in myself. "
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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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" Acting is always a challenge. "
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Always
Challenge
Acting
" Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed. "
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Love
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Nothing
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable. "
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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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" 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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" The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. "
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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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" 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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