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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.' "
Robert Downey, Jr.
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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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" 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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" Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do? "
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" I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience. "
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" Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest. "
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" I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms. "
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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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