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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. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive. "

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

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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. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

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

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" 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. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

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

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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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" 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.

" 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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" 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.' "

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" I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

" 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.

" 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.

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

" I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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.