Robert Downey Jr Quotes
"I’ve always been a pretty outspoken guy, and just like other aspects of my character, I’ve had no choice but to be candid, sooner or later, all is known anyway."

"My father was and still is my role model."

"Anything that is provocative is worth while."

"I'm not really 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. I've done some mediocre stuff, and it really bothers me. Having to live with mediocrity is pretty scary."

"It doesn't matter whether or not you can act. If you can go into a room and make these sweaters want you, that's what'll get you the job".

"I wanted to make a million dollars. I wanted my name above the titles and I wanted everyone to know who I was and all my friends, 'Wow, I wish I were him.' It probably wouldn’t have made my any happier but at least it would have given me the guise of success."

"I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most awesome privelege 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".

"I used to be into clothes, but I've lost the desire to spend an extra six minutes deciding what belt would look great with what shoes. I'm like, 'Wait a minute. Will these pants be comfortable after I eat?'"

"Part of me feels that acting is my job--a damn good living, and I don't want to give up the lifestyle--but another part is just starting to recognize the tertiary, healing, element to art. I have to believe that there's something, some greater purpose, for my doing it, because, really, nobody has any business playing Charlie Chaplin"

"Men are goats, we can't help it. Unless we really decide to, and then something changes in our eyes, and things are just a little different forever. I address women differently now. Before, there was always some part of me that subconsciously was cruising them. Any member of the opposite sex that I met. So now when I go out to lunch, I just order food, and keep it above chin level."

There is no mystery about me. The more one tries to uncover the mystery, the more they'll find out I'm just like everybody else. You know, I don't know why people say, God, he's such a normal guy!, like that's some great revelation. I mean, some people are more gifted than others in certain areas, but we all bodily functions and love our familys in som way or another, you know, and like playing Pictionary"

"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"

"I consider myself intelligent, but being a high-school dropout, I might not have pursued certain skills. There's the whole planning-your-life thing. Was there some class I missed during the last semester of my senior year that would have made it all come together?"

"Some part of me always felt like I would never amount to anything, and there I was, starting to amount to something, at least on the outside. So what was going on and what my beliefs were about myself were not coinciding. I had a desire for buffers"

"If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client"

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