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" 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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" 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? "

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Marriage

People

" I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids. "

" 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. "

" 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 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.

Think

Level

" 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?' "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think. "

" Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff. "

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

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

Childhood

Really

" I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead. "

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

Trouble

Good

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Going

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? "

" 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.' "

" 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. "