Robert Downey

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.”

“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.”

“I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.”

“If someone really takes a risk, it doesn't get dismissed. That's what happened when the Oscar was won posthumously by Heath Ledger, who did one of the definitive villain performances of all time. But it really has to be exceptional in defining everything we previously knew about the actress or the actor.”

“In movies, people seem to be more emotional than they would ever be if that situation was actually happening to them.”

“Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.”

“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.”

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

“I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.”

“Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.”

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

“I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.”

“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.”

“I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.”

“Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.”

“I don't want to be so confident in myself.”

“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 think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.”