Robert Downey, Jr.
I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.Collection: Husband
My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.Collection: Mean
I make faces for cash and chicken.Collection: Cash
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".Collection: Powerful
It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.Collection: Connected
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.Collection: Wings
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.Collection: Guy
[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.Collection: Dog
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.Collection: Talking
I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based ritualsCollection: Process
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.Collection: Educational
Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris.Collection: Aria
I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.Collection: Training
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.Collection: Grateful
It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … 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.Collection: Please Me
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Motivation
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.Collection: Bisexual
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.Collection: Kids
Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.Collection: Dope
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.Collection: Acting
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Nuts
You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.Collection: Running
Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.Collection: Dysfunction
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Real
Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.Collection: Watches
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."Collection: Odd Things
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.Collection: Jobs
I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.Collection: Wall
I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.Collection: Insane
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.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Night
Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.Collection: Years
I did Air America for two reasons: to be in a movie with Mel Gibson and to make a bunch of money. And then underneath there was the hope that in doing this formulaic thing I would be launched into a whole new realm of opportunity to do A-list movies. By the time we were done, the only positive thing was meeting Mel Gibson.Collection: Cocky
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?"Collection: Wow
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Hero
I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.Collection: Confused
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.Collection: Thinking
The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Thinking
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?Collection: Men
I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."Collection: Saying Please
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.Collection: Cocky
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Fun