Robert Downey Jr. quotes

Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor widely recognized for his versatile performances in film and television. His career includes major roles in blockbusters such as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, as well as critical acclaim for his earlier work. He has become one of Hollywood’s most beloved and influential stars. Here are 51 of his quotes:

Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.

Robert Downey Jr.

I have a really interesting political point of view, and it's not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but 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. You can't. I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics ever since.

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I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

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I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

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McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

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I have the best fans in the world and I aim to utilise my platform for good - to share things I uncover about the world, climate, technology.

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I was fortunate in that I was pre-Internet with much of my misbehavior, but I think I always had a bit of a moral psychology and I always wanted to kinda do the right thing, which doesn't count for much, and then I kinda took it on the chin.

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It's a very American thing to build up and break down and come back. It is in its own weird way the heroes journey.

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I always had an interest in the story of everything. A little bit of an existential crisis always helps when you're looking for a sea change. If I know anything, it's that I never learned anything while I was talking.

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It's like I've got a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.

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The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

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

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Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

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

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I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

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Acting is always a challenge.

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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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I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

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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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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've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

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

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