Quotes from Robert Downey, Jr.

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

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

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

Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.

Acting is always a challenge.

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

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.

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

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

[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.

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.

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.

Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way.

It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive.

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

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.

I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it.

In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.

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

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

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

If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.'

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