Quotes from Robert Downey Sr.

I'm a boxing fan.

A movie can't change anybody; it can only confirm what you already believe.

Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place, and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on.

Godard is a phony to me. His technique is great, but he just keeps replaying the same political rhetoric.

A film should always at least be about something.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

I'm too young to be a king and too committed to be a queen.

To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.

'Tropic Thunder' I think is a great film.

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.

Life is too easy when you're a movie star. People will do anything you want and get you anything you want.

Even with the lowest budget in the world, you better get some names in there; that calms people down. Then be sure your leading character is in a hurry.

To get me in to the Army underage, my mother signed me in saying that my birth certificate was lost in a fire in Nashville, so I got in underage. I was 16. She did because I begged her to do it.

When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something that was done Off-Off Broadway in a theater. It was called 'What Else Is There?' and it was four or five people playing missiles in a silo waiting to take off.

My parents got divorced when I was really young.

I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.