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The
lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
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I
think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though
you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when
you look back and see what you've done.
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I
know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
·
I
think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
·
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've
always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump
in the basket but I really don't know.
·
I
think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed
to do it.
·
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.
·
Sometimes
you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.
·
Acting
is always a challenge.
·
Nothing's
a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.
·
Does
any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what
to do?
·
Look,
even bad years are pretty good years I think.
·
I
think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought
to me another level than just the actor guy.
·
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
take some pride in... Representing myself exactly how I would like to have my
son remember me to his kids.
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I'm
coming from a place of total strength and humility now.
·
When
you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a
terrible script.
·
I
walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe
I should be on their radar.
·
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.
·
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.
·
I
don't want to be so confident in myself.
·
I
guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.
·
I
had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky
hair.
·
I
just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the
language better than me.
·
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'm
not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
·
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.
·
I
read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy,
cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good
and a lot of people liked it.
·
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.
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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.
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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
was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and Was a
little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just
been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.
Here
are some of the best RDJ quotes from the last twenty-plus years :
·
Interview
Magazine, 1989
Kenneth
Turan : What position does Chances Are occupy in your body of work?
Robert
Downey Jr. : Probably in the upper colon. No, it's a nice film.
·
USA
TODAY , August 15, 1990 [On a helicopter stunt in Air America]
"No
big deal. Where they lift me up and you see me disappear like a dot — I did
that. I was supposed to be sleeping, so when I opened my eyes, I was a couple
thousand feet up. It felt fine, kind of macho and cool."
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CBS
News, August 16, 1990
"There's
probably nothing more dissatisfying than — like if Air America doesn't make a
lot of money, I'll be — I'll feel really disillusioned. Because part of the
reason that I did the film was because I wanted to be in a film that was ...
did well at the box office."
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USA
Today , January 10, 1992
"I've
outgrown a lot of things I used to think I wanted, which was to be the
Dionysian maverick."
·
CBS
News, December 25, 1995
"There's
something I want to direct that I've written, which is very strange film about
a — a dog walker in New York City that loses the dogs."
·
CNN,
February 15, 2003
"I
think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves."
·
Esquire
, February 21, 2007 [To the author of the story]
"I
want you to feel completely free to let all your codependent neuroses out … You
can grab the wheel, you can ask me if my tummy hurts, you can give me a foot
rub later, anything. Enmeshment is really okay in small doses."
·
The
Sunday Times (London) April 13, 2008
On
his Iron Man workout regimen: "Probably 1,500 hours of effort for 11 seconds
of screen time."
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The
New Zealand Herald , April 25, 2008
"I
said 'Look, I've been in my own version of captivity and usually what a guy
wants when he gets sprung from jail or he's bailed out or he's been down for a
while, is he wants the simplest, easiest, all-American thing you can get.' You
want a soda, a cheeseburger and fries. And then you want ... obviously, the
next thing you want — there's only two things you want."
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Sunday
Mail (South Australia), April 27, 2008
"I
am supposedly of a stature where they call my agent and say, 'He'll need a
screen test' and they will say, 'What screen test — did you ever see Chaplin?'"
·
Rolling
Stone, August 2008
"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."
·
Esquire
, November 10, 2009
"Suffice
to say, dude, I'm not paranoid anymore. I'm not fearful. It's interesting to be
surfing this tremendous crisis of capitalism — and I know there's a coral reef
under me and I don't want to hang ten, but I do think that when you're in the
pole position, that's when you try to beat your best personal time."
Regarding
his square toilet: "Dude, this place is so Austin Powers twenty- first
century. I came here this morning having to drop a deuce, and it was a singular
and enjoyable."
·
Rolling
Stone, May 2010
"When
the door clicks shut, jail is the safest place on earth. There’s nothing aside
from a rogue correctional officer that can do you any real harm if you have the
right cellie.”
"[After
being bailed out of jail], I remember I had the only coke that tasted as good
as the coke I did with my dad and Jack [Nicholson].”
·
Ask
Men, December 2011
"Talking
about how good a shape I’m in is by far my favorite topic, and that would take
up at least a half an hour that we don’t have. That’s a topic for an entire
other interview."
·
Esquire
, May 2012
"The
greatest thing my dad taught me came one day when I called him from a phone
booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options. Friends aren't
picking up the phone.' He said, ' Pfft , get a job.'"
·
On
The Tonight Show , April 26, 2013
"When
you’re promoting a movie, you go out, and I call it: Grind, monkey. Grind."
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GQ
, May 2013
"I
felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked
yet."
"It
was all shock, awe, conquer — it was about devastating the competition."
"Look,
even if I don't get [an Oscar] 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."
Quotes RDJ yang
paling aku suka
Listen, smile,
agree, and then do whatever the f**k you were gonna do anyway.
The Charming
Arrogance of Robert Downey, Jr. Reduced To His Best Quotes -- Downey, Jr. is
ridiculously quotable, and an insanely good interview.
·
On
U.S. Marshalls :
I
thought maybe there was something I was missing, and what I really needed to do
was to be in one of those films that I love taking my kid to. It would end up being
really depressing. I'd rather wake up in jail for a TB test than have to wake up
another morning knowing I'm going to the set of US Marshals . Possibly the worst
action movie of all time, and that's just not good for the maintenance of a good
spiritual condition. You've had a traumatic year, you've been practically suicidal
- what do you think would be really healing for you? How about like twelve
weeks of running around as Johnny Handgun? I think that if you talk to a spirit
guide, they would say, 'That'll kill you.'
·
On
Tuff Turf:
"I
was on the Universal lot. I went to Los Angeles and it was like all my dreams came
true. And there were no repercussions. It was the Eighties. And I fit in real
well. I'm like the last guy at the party. It's passe to be involved in the s**t
I was involved in last year. But I never stopped working. I was making tons of
money. I was set up in a relationship with Sarah Jessica Parker, and it just
seemed like I could do no wrong. It was never easy, partying the way that I
did, which was as often as I could. But it was doable. And as long as it was
doable, I wasn't going to stop."
·
On
landing the role of a man with AIDS in Mike Figgis' One Night Stand :
"Mike
was so loving to me, because I was out of my mind when I met him ... We were at
Kate Mantilini's restaurant in Los Angeles. I was shoeless. Is there a statute
of limitations for a concealed weapon? ... Okay. I had a concealed weapon. At
the bar. He was looking at me and I'll never forget the look on his face. I was
thinking, What? Is he aware of what's going on? He asked me, "Why do you
have a gun?" It was, like, sticking out of this little purse. I mean I was
completely in a fantasy. I wasn't a badass. I thought I was meeting with Figgis
for the handsome male lead, because I was so debonair. In fact, he was
interested in me for the role of the guy dying of AIDS. He gave me the
job."
·
On
whether he should've won the Oscar for Chaplin :
"Hell,
yes ... Finest performance given by an actor in the 20th century ... I thought for
a second I was going to win. Marisa Tomei had won, and I thought, It's the young
people here. I'm sitting there, convinced this could be it. The voice-over in
my head was just ridiculous. It's all going my way. Not much longer now. Why is
it the last category? Because it's the category. Richard Tyler designed this suit
for me. I'm going to go up and show it off. I kind of look like Daniel Day- Lewis.
He won. Last time. It's all coming together. It's all-- it's-- well, some
people think it's not your turn. Well, he did get dicked twice before, and
Pacino is major. But he can't. It's me. But that-- no, he can't-- it's me. It's
not-- it's-- oh ... Then it's, "Hey, Robert, you want to go to the
after-party?" Oh, yeah. Good. That was just f**ked.
·
On
landing his role in Weird Science :
I
walked into John Hughes's office and Anthony Michael Hall was there playing with
John's stereo system ... It was like running into Spencer Tracy or something.
It was like seeing a movie star. [Anthony] Michael [Hall] came in and watched
us read, and he kind of looked at me, like, I'm going to tell John to get you
this job. I remember that Sarah [Jessica Parker] was in the car outside waiting
for me, and I said, "I think I got this job." ...Oh yeah. During that
time, [Anthony] Michael was probably the most amazing pussy wizard in history.
And if you were anywhere near him, you were having fun. He's 17 years old, and
there are gorgeous girls everywhere.
·
On
Air America:
I
did Air America for two reasons: to be in a movie with Mel Gibson, and to make a
bunch of money. And then underneath was the hope that in doing this formulaic thing
I would be launched into a whole new realm of opportunity to do A-list movies.
By the time we were done, the only positive thing was meeting Mel Gibson. It
was complicated. A lot went down. Good intentions, sad result.
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On
interviewing Mike Tyson for the improvised movie Black and White:
Well
yeah, the director James Toback was like "Just go tell him..." And I
was like, "What? Just go tell him that I had a super-gay dream about him,
and I was wondering if he'd hold me?" [Laughs.] And Mike was like off in
the corner deciding what Versace shirt to wear for the scene. He's like [adopts
Tyson voice] "Yeah, we're going to improvise. Yeah,,just don't have him
saying any weirdo, gay stuff." And when I said it, he was like "You
can't talk to me like that, man, I'm on parole man, I'm on parole." And I said,
"Will you hold me?" He said, "If I hit you, I'll pull my
punch." But Mike Tyson pulling his punch is like a donkey trying, I don't
know, to bite an apple out of your mouth or something.
·
On
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang :
Kiss
Kiss, Bang Bang is one of my favorites, if not my favorite movie that I have
ever done ... Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a f**king Maserati engine of a plot. It's
Shane Black, it's Joel Silver, it's Mrs. Downey [Downey's wife, Susan Levin] producing,
and me and Val Kilmer just going toe-to-toe in great shape. Shane Black, who
I've adored ever since he wrote the definitive buddy picture of all time,
Lethal Weapon . So yeah, I mean, that one to me was alive and innovative and
the other was something else.
Quotes Lainnya
·
“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.”
·
“It’s
a blanket statement to say, ‘That guy’s really sharp and amicable and nice,’
because there’s a little bit of asshole in every nice guy, and there’s a little
bit of genius in every moron.”
·
“Acting
was the easiest way to differentiate myself. It was something people felt was
daunting but nothing’s daunting once you’ve done it three times. Most try
skydiving once. Anyone who does it more will probably do it for the rest of
their lives because a, it’s a rush; b, it sounds really badass, and c, then you’re one of those people and
there’s identity in that. You’re one of those freaks that everyone kind of
wishes they were too who’s fanning out and creating a snowflake at 12,000ft.”
·
“I’ve
become a picky little b***h. I’ve never bothered to plan projects before I just
used to throw the script across the room and say, ‘why do they keep sending me
this horseshit?’ And then I’d start rehearsals two weeks later.”
·
“I’m
not that big a reader, I’m not particularly well educated. My mom and dad used
to while away their hours writing and I would hear them trying out lines on
each other. I have a general idea about a variety of topics, and so when I’m
out there trying to tap dance my way through a dinner where there’s a bunch of
smart and accomplished people, I want to be able to say words like ‘palimpsest,’
or reference Gore Vidal, or pull some Prokofiev movements out of my ass.”
·
“I
don’t see why I’d want to do another album. The Futurist came out and made its
money back, but I worked my ass off and I was not compensated in the fashion I
was accustomed to.”
·
“For
years I took pride in being resilient but that turned me into this guy who can
get hit by a brick bat every morning and still look kind of cute.”
·
On
his wife, Susan: “I like things to look nice and orderly. But we step over each
other sometimes, and I find my socks in her bag. Sometimes Susan calms me down
and other times she’s the reason I am annoyed.”
·
“I
am very, very, very high maintenance.”
·
“Almost
every day, I change at least three times. If I go away for a weekend, I swear
to God I need the biggest Samsonite you can imagine.”
·
“Not
to get all Michael Jackson on you, but I didn’t really have a childhood. So I
kind of fit it in between 28 and 37.”
·
“My
father was and still is my role model.”
·
“I’m
not really afraid of total failure, because I don’t think that will happen. I’m
not afraid of success, because that beats the hell out of failure. It’s being
in the middle that scares me. I’ve done some mediocre stuff, and it really
bothers me. Having to live with mediocrity is pretty scary.”
·
“It
doesn’t matter whether or not you can act. If you can go into a room and make
these sweaters want you, that’s what’ll get you the job.”
·
“I
wanted to make a million dollars. I wanted my name above the titles and I
wanted everyone to know who I was and all my friends, ‘Wow, I wish I were him.’
It probably wouldn’t have made my any happier but at least it would have given
me the guise of success.”
·
“I
would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a
film career for granted. It is the most awesome privilege to be able to use
one’s imagination and wit, physicality and musicality, conscious brain and
unconscious instinct in the service of a work that has a chance to move and
excite and amuse and delight people all over the world, including long after
we’re dead. What a noble calling! And I felt it was just there for me as a kind
of given, some sort of inherited birthright– when in reality it’s the most
magnificent luxury.”
·
“Part
of me feels that acting is my job – a damn good living, and I don’t want to
give up the lifestyle – but another part is just starting to recognize the
tertiary, healing, element to art. I have to believe that there’s something,
some greater purpose, for my doing it, because, really, nobody has any business
playing Charlie Chaplin.”
·
“Men
are goats, we can’t help it. Unless we really decide to, and then something
changes in our eyes, and things are just a little different forever. I address
women differently now. Before, there was always some part of me that subconsciously
was cruising them. Any member of the opposite sex that I met. So now when I go
out to lunch, I just order food, and keep it above chin level.”
·
“There
is no mystery about me. The more one tries to uncover the mystery, the more
they’ll find out I’m just like everybody else. You know, I don’t know why
people say, God, he’s such a normal guy!, like that’s some great revelation. I
mean, some people are more gifted than others in certain areas, but we all
bodily functions and love our families in some way or another, you know, and
like playing Pictionary.”
·
“Growing
up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can
be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you’re not
supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You’re not supposed to make fun
of yourself. You’re not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I’m a Toys-R-Us kid.”
·
“I
consider myself intelligent, but being a high-school dropout, I might not have
pursued certain skills. There’s the whole planning-your-life thing. Was there
some class I missed during the last semester of my senior year that would have
made it all come together?”
·
“Some
part of me always felt like I would never amount to anything, and there I was,
starting to amount to something, at least on the outside. So what was going on
and what my beliefs were about myself were not coinciding. I had a desire for
buffers.”
·
”If
I was a lawyer, I’d be my own best client.”
·
“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
think the great underestimation about life is that life is manageable, or it’s
supposed to be easy, or good people will preserve. I’d rather go a little bit
deeper and look at life through the ideal of the never-ending, really difficult
obstacle course. Or how about good old- fashioned Buddhist joyful participation
in the suffering of mankind?”
·
I’ve
always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I’m so insane, I
guess.
·
The
higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
·
I’m
not used to felling like I belong where I am.
·
A
lot of my peer group think I’m an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an
ammonia-filled tentacle or something somewhere on my body. That’s okay.
·
[on
his addiction to drugs] It’s like I have a loaded gun in my mouth, and I like
the taste of metal.
·
[on
his music] I am putting together some
ideas for two or three more things I want to do. Maybe a CD of just my kind of
standards, which would be Super tramp and Steely Dan covers with an orchestra.
I’m deep into old Genesis. I’m sorry, but these are songs that mean something
to me. “Follow You Follow Me” is a song that’s about something to me.
·
It
was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went
up into the judge’s chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.
·
[on
superhero movies]. What I usually hate about these movies when suddenly the guy
that you were digging turns into Dudley Do-Right, and then you’re supposed to
buy into all his “Let’s go do some good! That Eliot Ness-in-cape-type thing.
What was really important to me was to not have him change so much that he’s
unrecognizable. When someone used to be a schmuck and they’re not anymore,
hopefully they still have a sense of humor.
·
[on
Black and White] A stage slap from Mike Tyson is like a shovel whack from a
normally fortified make.
·
The
great thing about Saturday Night Live was being at 30 Rockefeller Center. And
having Belushi and Aykroyd’s old office. And me and Michael [Anthony Michael
Hall] saying, “We want bunk beds. With NFL Sheets. And we want them now.” And
Michael was like “ Man, it’s gonna be great, we’re gonna be buddies, we’re
gonna do a show together, we’re gonna …” Te, “I’m gonna do “Out of Bounds”” and
he left. As for me, I was doing “Back to Scholl” and Saturday Night Live at the
same time. So I’d fly back to Los Angeles for a couple of days during the week
to shoot the movie and then fly back and, “Live from New York, it’s a tired
young man!”
·
I
had four weeks’ work in “Baby It’s You”, and I told all my friends I was now,
officially, a major talent and film star. And then they cut my scenes out. You
don’t even see me except in one scene – you see me in the background until this
self-indulgent actress leans forward to try and get more camera time. They cut
all my scenes out and my friend go, “He, Robert – maybe it’s you!” now I don’t
tell people that I’m in a film until I see in on videocassette.
·
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.
·
[on
why he did Danger Zone] Five hundred grand for two weeks.
·
[on
Restoration] I just thought [Hugh Grant] was a dick, that’s all. And still do.
You know, and that could be something that has to do with me, or it could just
be that not everyone in this industry is someone I’d care to hang out with.
·
[on
Weird Science] I defecated in [Kelly LeBrock’s] trailer, much to the changrin
of Bill Paxton and Robert Rusler. It was a real bas scene. Joel Silver freaked.
I never admitted it. Joel said, “Downey, did you do it?”and I said I wish I
had. Because I’d been threatening everyone that if they didn’t treat me right, I
was going to take a dump in their trailer, or that I’d go take a s**t in Joel’s
office, on his desk or something.
·
[on
his childhood] didn’t want to talk about
what my dad did because it wasn’t like he was directing “All in the Family” or
anything. He was doing these crazy films. Mom would pick me up at school
wearing this big quilted cape. I felt like I was in a J.D. Salinger story.
Dad’s Jewish and Irish, Mom’s German and Scotch. I could say I was anything. My
last name isn’t even Downey. My dad changed his named 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 is some way.
·
[on
Sean Penn] In a relatively short time he was a better friend than some people
I’d known for ages. I remember him saying three or four years ago, “You have
two reputations. I think you know what both of them are, and I think you’d do
well to get rid of one of those reputations. If you don’t, it will get rid of
the other one.” And I was like, “Two reputations, I’ll be right back.” Just
hearing him say that reminded me that I should go score. After that, he was like,
forget it. It sucks too, because someone as honorable as he is. I really should
have responded. Jesus, I grew up idolizing this guy. Not only does he consider
me a friend, but he’s taking time. He’s living his dreams and making time for
me, I’m like, “I can’t, I just can’t – sorry, busy.”
·
As
soon as I started smoking heroin instead of smoking coke, everything was
different, and I knew it was. And it happened around the time I was doing “Home
for the Holidays”. Home for the Holiday s, for me, one of the most relaxed
performances in the history of cinema. I can’t attribute that to the fact that
I was at a serene place in my life, or that there was a real warm feeling on
the set. This is a problem for me because I glamorize this stuff. I can’t say
that it wasn’t real dark, real evil and real hurtful to those around me. And
yet, practically every take of that film was a print. God bless Jodie Foster. When
does she have time to do a handwritten letter telling someone how she genuinely
cares about them? She said, “Listen, I’ not worried about you on this film.
You’re not losing it or nodding out, and you’re giving a great performance. I’m
worried about your thinking you can get away with doing this on another film.”
·
[on
Chaplin] When I accepted the part, they didn’t tell me that I also had to do
the acrobatic stuff of Charlie. That has cost me a lot of blood, sweat and
tears. Thought I now can say, ‘I did all my stunts myself.’ Working on Chaplin
was really intensive and cost me years of my life, but if I could do it all
over again, no doubt I would do it the same way.
·
[o
Chaplin] Chaplin was the culmination of an opportunity, and the biggest
humiliation I’ve ever experienced. It was like winning the lottery, then going
to prison. I realized that nothing that had worked for me before was going to
work here. I’d watch one of Charlie’s films, but by the end of it I was wildly
depressed, because I realized that what he’d done in this twenty-minute short
was more expressive and funnier than everything I’ve thought about dong my
whole life.
·
I
don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a
childhood.
·
I
have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.
·
[on
Mickey Rourke] He’s so good. And he’s formidable and he’s very much reminding
me of that kind of charming, confident guy that we know.
·
[on
Iron Man 2] I’ve never been in a sequel and it’s very daunting because I feel
the expectation of the ,millions of people who watched it and enjoyed it and
told me that it was a little different that your usual genre picture and that
they expected us to not screw it up. So I actually have taken “Iron Man 2”
probably more seriously than any movie I’ve ever done, which is appropriately
ridiculous for Hollywood.
·
Mel
Gibson cast me in “The Singing Detective”, even thought an insurance company
wouldn’t cover it because it was my first film after my release from behind bars.
The best part was when Mel gave e a motorcycle while we still had two weeks
left to shoot. I go, ‘Are you trying to ruin this movie? What if have an
accident?’ he goes, ‘No, no. I figure if you made it two-thirds of the way
through, you can’t do anything wrong.’
·
What
do you say, though – if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plan.
·
[His
Golden Globe acceptance speech for Best Actor-Comedy or Musical] If you start
playing violins, I will tear this joint apart. First of all, I want to thank my
wife Susan Downey for telling me Matt Damon going to win so don’t bother to
prepare a speech. That was at about ten AM. I don’t have anybody to thank. I’m
sorry, Everyone’s been so gratuitous, it was a collaboration, we all did this
together. Certainly not going to thank Warner Brothers, Alan Horn, and my god,
robbing off these guys. They needed me. “Avatar” was going to take us to the
cleaners. If they didn’t have me, we didn’t have a shot buddy. What am I going
to do? I’m not going to be able to thank Joel Silver. I mean the guy has only
restarted my career twelve times since I began twenty-five years ago. I really
don’t want to thank my wife because I could be busing tables at the daily groom
right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that would be. Gut Richie had a
great vision for this film and a lot of great people came together and we
worked our asses off,. It’s just a privilege. The Hollywood Foreign Press has a
quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a genius by the way, and he said “Art
is the blood, Is libel to take to the strongest forms”. That is also why I
would like to thank, or not thank, the Hollywood Foreign Press because they are
a strange bunch of people and now I’m one of them. Thank you.
·
I
thought it was a completely incendiary idea and I blame it all on Ben Stiller
and DreamWorks [About his role as an Australian actor playing a black man in
Tropic Thunder]
·
I
have a really interesting political point of view, and it’s not always
something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but 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. You can’t. I wouldn’t wish that experience on anyone
else, but t was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my
proclivities and politics every since. [Downey in [i] The New York Times [/i]
in 2008, on why some of this political opinions now lean more conservative than
they used to]
·
[on
producer Joel Silver] : Joel just kept telling me. We’ve got to get your gun in
your hand. Joel is one of the few relationships I care to have with a producer.
Lock he’s vast and voracious, and he definitely has the ability to break into a
scream about a point he would like to make. But he can also be incredibly warm
and generous.
·
[on
winning an Oscar] As long as I stick around I’m going to end up with a bunch of
them anyway as they’re going to run out of people to give them to. And I’m
probably going to win it one year when someone else deserves to win it. Why?
Because it’s my time, goddamit. And that’s the ways s**t works around here. I’m
just an uptight mutt at the top of his game. Welcome to Hollywood, b***h! I’ll
see you the vanity Fair part and I’ll be holding that golden statue you deserve
‘cause guess what? It happened to me too!
·
[on
Mel Gibson] : He’s a sand-up guy -he’s always has been for me – and certainly
when was not hire-able, he put his ass
on the line and said, ‘I’ll take that chance’. He will always have my
friendship, and that’s just talking about business and Hollywood stuff, which
to me is nowhere as important as friendship.
·
(2010,
on his past problems) Sometimes it’s necessary to compartmentalize the
different stages of your evolution, both personally and objectively, for the
people you have to love and tolerate. And one of those people, for me, is me. I
have a very strong sense of that messed-up kid, that devoted theater actor,
that ne’er-do-well 20-something nihilistic androgyne and that late-20s married
guy with a little kid, lost, lost in
narcotics-all as aspects of things I don’t regret and am happy to keep a door
open on. More than anything I have this sense that I’m a veteran of a war that
is difficult to discuss with people who haven’t been there. I feel for the kind
of zeitgeist diagnoses that are being applied to certain of my peers lately,
and think it’s unconscionable.
·
(2010
on landing Iron Man) I prepared for the screen test so feverishly that I
literally made it impossible for anybody to do a better job. I had never worked
on something that way before; I was so familiar with six or nine pages of
dialogue, I had thought of every possible scenario. At a certain point during
the screen test, I was so overwhelmed with anxiety about the opportunity that almost
passed out. I watched it later, and that moment came, fluttered and wasn’t even
noticeable. But, to me, it was this stretched-out moment of what keeps people
from doing theater for 30 years –just an unadulterated fear of failure.
·
(2010)
Discipline for me is about respect. It’s not even about self-respect; it’s
about respect for life and all it offers. And not indulging. I have happily
reconsidered my position on a bunch of things I didn’t what on my “no” list
despite all evidence that I couldn’t handle them. At the end of the day,
anything I think I’m sacrificing I’m just giving up because it makes me feel
better.
·
(2010)
I’ve noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don’t want to happen. I
don’t worry, but I observe where my mind tends to go. I have such an overwhelming
sense that if you’re in the right state of heart, which I have been for a
little while, the next right thing appears to you.
·
(2010)
I find myself fascinates with shows like “Bad Girls” and “Jerseylicious”, and
also “Inside American Jail” and “Lockup”. The best one’s in the U.K.; I watch
it when I’m over there doing Sherlock. It’s called “Locked Up Abroad”, which
means “Locked up”. “Locked Up Abroad” is always fun.
·
[on
the Oscar ceremony] it is amazing to see how people are literally
hyperventilating when they get up there, because they have such an attachment
to this outcome.
·
Nobody
has cornered Halloween as a market since “Halloween”.
·
It’s
hard for me to watch “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” and not get nostalgic about it. It’s
not perfect but in some ways, I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. I
don’t know why.
·
My
intent is to dominate the playing field for as long as can, with my own
challenges, with myself.
Nah
itu dia Quotes nya om Downey, maaf kalau kurang lengkap dan kata-kata nya agak
kasar (harus di sensor). Hehe… But, itu lah om Downey.
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