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" I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Happy
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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. "
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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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" I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead. "
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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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" 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 think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable. "
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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'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 guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic. "
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" I don't want to be so confident in myself. "
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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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Want
Think
" I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. "
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Better
Language
Me
" 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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Speak
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
Situation
" 'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience. "
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Movie
Important
" 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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Son
People
Friends
" 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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Myself
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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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Enough
Son
Hero
" 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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People
" When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. "
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Trouble
Good
" 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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" 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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" The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. "
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" I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen. "
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Happen
" 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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" Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable. "
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Position
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" It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life. "
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Yourself
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" It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. "
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