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" I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Live Life
You
Know
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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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" Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff. "
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" I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive. "
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" I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it. "
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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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" 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 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 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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" 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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" Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest. "
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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
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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 go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood. "
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Childhood
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" 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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" I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. "
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Know
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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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Basket
Eggs
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" I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin. "
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" I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall. "
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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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" Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think. "
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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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" Acting is always a challenge. "
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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 think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable. "
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Year
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" I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic. "
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Me
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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 don't want to be so confident in myself. "
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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 had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair. "
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