Quotes from Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

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.

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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 don't want to be so confident in myself.

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

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.

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".

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is.

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.'

I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work.

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

If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.

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

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

The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job.

'Shaggy Dog' was a very, very important movie for me. It was a very enjoyable experience.