Robert Jr Downey Quotes & Sayings

I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah. — Robert Downey Jr.

I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?" — Robert Downey Jr.

The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job. — Robert Downey Jr.

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

I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for. — Robert Downey Jr.

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen. — Robert Downey Jr.

[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.

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.

It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts. — Robert Downey Jr.

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers. — Robert Downey Jr.

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

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal — Robert Downey Jr.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. — Robert Downey Jr.

'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs. — Robert Downey Jr.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.' — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family. — Robert Downey Jr.

I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you cant go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You cant. I wouldnt wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

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.

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.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

I make faces for cash and chicken. — Robert Downey Jr.

I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again." — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

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

I like to be a little more difficult to nail down that that just inside myself, but when someone's motivations, even if they wind up falling in one side or the other of the debate, when they're personal and also when they're masked by something that only the audience knows is really their motivation, that to me is just what I call entertainment. — Robert Downey Jr.

I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything. — Robert Downey Jr.

If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff. — Robert Downey Jr.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

I think a hero is someone who, if abroad or traveling, they go to the GOOP website to see what shops to go to, what restaurants to eat at, what clothes to buy, and they do that not fearlessly but in spite of their fear. — Robert Downey Jr.

Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around. — Robert Downey Jr.

I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do. — Robert Downey Jr.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it. — Robert Downey Jr.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself. — Robert Downey Jr.

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

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be. — Robert Downey Jr.

I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms. — Robert Downey Jr.

If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client. — Robert Downey Jr.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

You know, when you're part of a comedic duo, you can take breaks. It's kind of like having a partner that is good with a kid. — Robert Downey Jr.

Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall. — Robert Downey Jr.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. — Robert Downey Jr.

Acting is always a challenge. — Robert Downey Jr.

I'm not a method guy. I can't be bothered to have a method. I just want to be a part of a good movie and I can't stand to be surrounded by morons. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

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? — Robert Downey Jr.

I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it. — Robert Downey Jr.

At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

If you're anything like me there are days when you're convinced you know more than everyone around you. Which is often confirmed by your interactions with people. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

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

Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine. — Robert Downey Jr.

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

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces. — Robert Downey Jr.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable. — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

Give me a scotch, I'm starving. — Robert Downey Jr.

Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff. — Robert Downey Jr.

I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time ... but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.'
Trust me, *this* is the future of this sort of thing. — Grant Morrison

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem. — Robert Downey Jr.

Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change, — Robert Downey Jr.

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. — Robert Downey Jr.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there. — Robert Downey Jr.

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood. — Robert Downey Jr.

Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff. — Robert Downey Jr.

Everyone has a story, and the story changes, and the more I can root into the truth of things - it's so hard - I don't think anyone ever really puts it all together. But somewhere along the way it all became fused. — Robert Downey Jr.

It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all. — Robert Downey Jr.

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.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now. — Robert Downey Jr.