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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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Me
Think
Level
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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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" 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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" With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily. "
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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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" 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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" 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.' "
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" I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable. "
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" I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic. "
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" I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now. "
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" Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable. "
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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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" Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? "
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" 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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People
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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 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Success
Think
Professional
" 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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" 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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Experience
Want
Think
" I don't want to be so confident in myself. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Want
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Myself
" 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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" Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut. "
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" I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen. "
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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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" 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. "
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Army
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Home
" 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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" 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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Funny
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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 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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Like
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Out
" 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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