When you have a good script you’re almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script. – Robert Downey, Jr.
In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them. – 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 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?’ – Robert Downey, Jr.
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. – Robert Downey, Jr.
I take some pride in… representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids. – 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 had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair. – 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.
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.
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.
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.
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’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 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.
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.