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Robert Downey Jr.

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    Robert Downey Jr.

    Acting is always a challenge.

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    [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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.

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    But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

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    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?

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    Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.

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    Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Give me a scotch, I'm starving.

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    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.

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    I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals

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    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.

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    I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

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    I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

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    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.

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    I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

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    Robert Downey Jr.

    I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

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    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.

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    I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

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    I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

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    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.

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    I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

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    I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Robert Downey Jr.

    I make faces for cash and chicken.

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    I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.

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    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.

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    I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again.

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    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.

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    Robert Downey Jr.

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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".

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    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.

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    I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

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    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.

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    I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.