Robert John Downey Jr. Quotes

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  Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the f*ck you were gonna do anyway.

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  Tags in Listen, Gonna

• 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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  Tags in Real, Like

• Does any new parent, even if you’re not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

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  Tags in Parent, Parenting

• I don’t want to be so confident in myself.

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  Tags in Confident

• I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.

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• I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.

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  Tags in Dynamic, Issue

• I just don’t like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

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

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  Tags in Pride, Remember

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

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  Tags in Heroic, Verb

• I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

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  Tags in Radar, Hand

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

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• 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.

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• I’m in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.

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• I’m coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

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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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Mean, Happen

• 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.

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  Tags in Forget, Kiss, Read

• I know very little about acting. I’m just an incredibly gifted faker.

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  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Little, Acting

• I’m not 40 yet. I wouldn’t even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.

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  Tags in Myself, Bother, Comparing

• Acting is always a challenge.

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  Tags in Acting, Challange

Robert John Downey Jr. (36)

Birth:	4th April, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Robert John Downey, Jr. is an American actor who made his screen debut at the age of five, appearing in his father's film Pound. He has appeared in roles associated with the Brat Pack, such as Less Than Zero and Weird Science. Other films he has starred in include Air America, Soapdish, and Natural Born Killers.

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