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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. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Important

" 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. "

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

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Really

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

" 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. "

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

" I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Out

" 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.' "

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

" I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable. "

" I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. "

" 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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Doing

" When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. "

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Good

" Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

Better

Language

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

" I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen. "