A biography for Robert Downeyhasn’t been written yet.
“All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.”
“I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.”
“Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?”
“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.”
“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.”
“Acting is always a challenge.”
“It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.”
“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.”
“I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.”
“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?'”
“I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.”
“The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.”
“'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.”
“There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'”
“I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.”
“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.”
“I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.”
“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.”