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.
I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
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.
I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.
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?'
'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.
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.
Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.Collection: Mean
Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.Collection: Agree
People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.Collection: Moving
Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.Collection: Worry
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.Collection: Impossible Odds
I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.Collection: Men
I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?Collection: Confidence
I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.Collection: Who I Am
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.Collection: Thinking
To me, friendship means loving tolerance.Collection: Mean
Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be thrown into it, where you're going to sink or swim. It's amazing how self-correcting and how clarifying a good, hard, shitty job can be. Because at the end of the day, any profession I've seen anybody in, when you peer behind the curtains of Oh, wouldn't that be a great job? Wow, what an amazing thing, a philanthropic endeavor! it really just comes down to It's a f**king grind.Collection: Strong
Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Years
There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Girlfriend
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.Collection: Games
I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.Collection: Drinking
The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Opportunity
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.Collection: Sports
I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.Collection: Destiny
Give me a scotch, I'm starving.Collection: Scotch
The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.Collection: Stakes
At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Heart
I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.Collection: Thinking
I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to be able to use one's imagination and wit, physicality and musicality, conscious brain and unconscious instinct in the service of a work that has a chance to move and excite and amuse and delight people all over the world, including long after we're dead. What a noble calling! And I felt it was just there for me as a kind of given, some sort of inherited birthright-when in reality it's the most magnificent luxury.Collection: Moving
I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: People
I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.Collection: Feelings
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.Collection: Growing Up
Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen. I have such an overwhelming sense that if you're in the right state of heart, the next right thing appears to you.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Believe
If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.Collection: Clients
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.Collection: Thinking
It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metalCollection: Gun
If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff.Collection: Pokemon
There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.Collection: Quiet
Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Thinking
And last but not the leastCollection: Badass