List of Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes

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.

I Had This Bad-boy-from-new York Vibe Going, Dressed Like A Punk Rocker With Spiky Hair.

Every Time I Feel That I Really Hit Critical Mass And I'm In The Right Place Is When I Feel Like The Director And I Become A Third Thing, And That's The Character.

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.

I, Personally, Would Be Shocked If We Went To The End Of The Tape Now And I Didn't Have At Least One... Look, Even If I Don't Get One Directly, Eventually They're Just Going To Have To Give Me One When I Get Old. So No Matter How You Slice It, I'm Getting One.

I Thought That The Grounded-ish Nature Of The First Iron Man And Where I Think The Success Of It Was Based Was I Think People Got Excited That This Was A Technologically Possible Occurrence; And Didn't Obama Order An Iron Man?

I'm Not Used To Studios Being Ecstatic About We Did And Saying, "please Go Do That Again."

You Can't Go From A $2,000-a-night Suite At La Mirage To A Penitentiary, And Really Understand It, And Come Out A Liberal.

I Guess The Main Thing Is, You Unconsciously Take Things For Granted, And You Think The Audience Is With You, Because You're With Yourself.

I Think Paranoia Goes From Generation To Generation. It's Convenient To Imagine That There's A Few People Controlling Everything, That Way It's Manageable And Small. But That's Not Life, Life Is Messy.

The Audience Can Feel The Subtleties Of The Characters.

I Saw School Of Rock, And I Was Like, Why Haven't I Worked With Richard Linklater Already? Then By The Time I Got Him I Was Like, I'm Really Pissed Off I Feel Like You Owe Me Some Retroactive Swag. He Gave Me The 10-year Anniversary "dazed And Confused" T-shirt, Which I Still Wear With Relish.