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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. "

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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. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

Movies

People

Situation

" 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. "

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

" 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 go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood. "

Robert Downey, Jr.

Childhood

Really

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest. "

" 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. "

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

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

Dressed

Going

" 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. "

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

Robert Downey, Jr.

Trouble

Good

" 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 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. "

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

" 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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.

You

Doing

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

" 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. "

" 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. "