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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. "
Robert Downey, Jr.
Look
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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. "
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" I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair. "
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" I don't want to be so confident in myself. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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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" I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. "
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" 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. "
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" Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? "
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" When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. "
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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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" Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest. "
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" I think I just never wanted to be the creepy guy where people say, 'Why do his leading ladies keep getting younger and younger, and why do they think he's so hot even though we know that the girl who's playing this part actually has a handsome boyfriend?' "
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" Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think. "
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" 'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience. "
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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'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive. "
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" I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar. "
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" I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. "
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" Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks. "
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Breaks
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" 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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" I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy. "
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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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" 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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