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Sometimes everything you need ...

Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I saw School of Rock, and I wa...

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.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I think paranoia goes from gen...

I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

If you're anything like me the...

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.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I know if you talk faster and ...

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.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

Nothing will serve you better ...

Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be thrown into it, where you're going to sink or swim. It's amazing how self-correcting and how clarifying a good, hard, shitty job can be. Because at the end of the day, any profession I've seen anybody in, when you peer behind the curtains of Oh, wouldn't that be a great job? Wow, what an amazing thing, a philanthropic endeavor! it really just comes down to It's a f**king grind.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I've always felt that if you'r...

I've always felt that if you're not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

Nobody learns a German aria ov...

Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

Every time I feel that I reall...

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.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I don't like words coming out ...

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.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I remember when people said, ...

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'.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I never know when the seeds ar...

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, 'Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?'

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I like to be a little more dif...

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.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I wouldn't want to see anythin...

I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

It's become this really odd th...

It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, 'Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you.'

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I thought that the grounded-is...

I thought that the grounded-ish nature of the first Iron Man and where I think the success of it was based was I think people got excited that this was a technologically possible occurrence; and didn't Obama order an Iron Man?

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

Whenever I watch someone doing...

Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

You have to give people someth...

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

You have to let go of the thin...

You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

I really don't want to thank m...

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.

Robert Downey Jr. 137 quotes

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