Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

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.

I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

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

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

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

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

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.

I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves.

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

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

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.

At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.

The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

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

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

To me, friendship means loving tolerance.

If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff.

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?

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

I make faces for cash and chicken.

There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

Give me a scotch, I'm starving.

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

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.

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back.

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.

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

I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.

There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.

If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.

I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.

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.

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.

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.

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

Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change.

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

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen. I have such an overwhelming sense that if you're in the right state of heart, the next right thing appears to you.