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" Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Break
Breaks
Even
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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 you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it. "
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Up
You
Doing
" 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. "
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Someone
Villain
" 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
" Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Know
New
Even
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
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Why
Gain
" 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.
Empty
Always
Rage
" 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
" 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.
Know
Marriage
People
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Army
Looking
Home
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Lesson
Forgiveness
Mistakes
" I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Strong
Fast
Aggressive
" 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 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
" 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
Me
Spot
" 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
Me
" 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 don't want to be so confident in myself. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Want
Confident
Myself
" 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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Light
Serious
You
" 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
" 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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Team
Marathon
Money
" 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
" I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Keep
Me
Dynamic