Top 100 Quotes About Robert Downey Jr
#1. Robert Downey Jr. doesn't work out like us regular folks. Adulation bathes him from the moment he arrives at his Los Angeles martial arts studio.
Stephen Rodrick
#2. From Drew Barrymore to Robert Downey Jr., there's a long list of people who have faced their troubles, wildly overcome them, and succeeded.
Chris Pine
#3. One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.
Rebecca Hall
#4. He's one of those rare creatures who can party like past-day Robert Downey Jr. and somehow be as successful and revered as present-day Robert Downey Jr.
Elle Kennedy
#5. I've always wanted to meet Robert Downey, Jr. because I think he's awesome.
Elden Henson
#6. Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
David Letterman
#7. I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.
Tom Hiddleston
#8. Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.
Tom Hiddleston
#9. For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
Olivia Munn
#10. If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let's go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].
Bryan Singer
#11. 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.
#12. Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
Robert Downey Jr.
#13. 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.
#14. People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds,
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#15. I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude,
Robert Downey Jr.
#16. 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.
#18. Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.
Robert Downey Jr.
#20. 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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#21. There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.
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#22. 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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#23. Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change,
Robert Downey Jr.
#24. 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.
#25. Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.
Robert Downey Jr.
#26. 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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#27. I think the goal is to make a well written scene seem like it's improvised and/or to come up with things that you find in the room that you couldn't have known until you get into the real situation, just try to improve things as you go along.
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#28. Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.
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#29. Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
Robert Downey Jr.
#30. I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.
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#31. I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.
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#32. And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
Bret Easton Ellis
#33. 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.
#34. 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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#35. I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one ... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one.
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#36. Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.
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#37. 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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#38. I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
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#39. I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
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#40. I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.
Robert Downey Jr.
#41. McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.
Robert Downey Jr.
#42. 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.
#43. Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.
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#45. I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals
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#46. At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.
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#47. I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.
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#48. [Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.
Robert Downey Jr.
#49. It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.
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#50. Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.
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#51. I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?
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#52. When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. I've always felt that if you're not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.
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#56. 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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#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.
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#60. 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.
#61. I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.
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#62. Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.
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#64. 'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.
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#65. Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.
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#66. I really don't want to thank my wife because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that'd be.
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#67. It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you."
Robert Downey Jr.
#68. I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
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#69. I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".
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#70. I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.
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#71. The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
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#72. 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.
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#73. Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
Robert Downey Jr.
#74. 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.
#75. I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.
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#76. I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.
Robert Downey Jr.
#77. Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.
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#78. I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Robert Downey Jr.
#79. Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
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#81. I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.
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#82. I thought that the grounded-ish nature of the first Iron Man and where I think the success of it was based was I think people got excited that this was a technologically possible occurrence; and didn't Obama order an Iron Man?
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#83. I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.
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#84. The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.
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#85. 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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#87. 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.
Robert Downey Jr.
#88. You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.
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#89. 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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#90. I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.
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#93. You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.
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#94. 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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#97. I need a lot of support ... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic.
Robert Downey Jr.
#98. It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal
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#99. A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
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