Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes
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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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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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The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.
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People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.
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I think the goal is to make a well written scene seem like it's improvised and/or to come up with things that you find in the room that you couldn't have known until you get into the real situation, just try to improve things as you go along.
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Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change.
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There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.
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The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
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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 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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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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Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.
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Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.
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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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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.
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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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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 want to be so confident in myself.
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If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.
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Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.
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You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.
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I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
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Give me a scotch, I'm starving.
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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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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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It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.
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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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Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.
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I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.
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I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
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