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" I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Even
Chaplin
Comparing
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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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Love
Moment
Nothing
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Experience
Want
Think
" I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Very
Everything
Good
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Basket
Eggs
Know
" I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Strong
Fast
Aggressive
" 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.' "
Robert Downey, Jr.
You
Know
Own
" I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
You
Want
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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Power
Moving Forward
Think
" Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Wildly
Position
Overpaid
" I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Acting
Know
Little
" 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.
Busy
Great
Stupid
" Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Look
Years
Think
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Son
People
Friends
" 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.
Like
Walk
Out
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Think
Funny
Forget
" 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
" I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Give
Life
Want
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Funny
Good
Said
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Generation
You
Poverty
" When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
More
Trouble
Good
" I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Keep
Me
Dynamic
" 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.' "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Day
Morning
Myself
" I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Up
You
Doing
" I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Son
Myself
Pride
" The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Lesson
Forgiveness
Mistakes
" Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Sometimes
Gotta
Nest
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
People
Back
Fall
" I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Year
Life
Changes
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Team
Marathon
Money
" Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Look
Sometimes
Dress