Robert Downey Jr.
American actor (born 1965)
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- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.
- When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.
- Acting is always a challenge.
- 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.
- Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.
- The onus is mostly on the director, and the people developing it and the producers and then the cast and crew and everyone else.
- I am putting together some ideas for two or three more things I want to do. Maybe a CD of just my kind of standards, which would be Supertramp and Steely Dan covers with an orchestra. I'm deep into old Genesis - I'm sorry, but these are songs that mean something to me. Follow You Follow Me" is a song that's about something to me." (On his music)
- 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 read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.
- I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
- 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.
- I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.
- I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
- Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.
- 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.
- Certain characters are real tough, intricate and multi-faceted, but it's really confidence building when it's your words being written.
- (on his addiction to drugs): "It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth, and I like the taste of metal."
- 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.
- It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom (on Ally McBeal). I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective
- I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.
- The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.