Latest Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Character, Directors, Mass

  "DUE DATE Press Conference with Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis, Director Todd Phillips and Michelle Monaghan". collider.com. November 2, 2010.

• I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Believe, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Wow, Scene, Seeds

  Source: collider.com

• 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".

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Powerful, Men, Lunch

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Moving, Past, Men

  Source: collider.com

• I like to be a little more difficult to nail down that that just inside myself, but when someone's motivations, even if they wind up falling in one side or the other of the debate, when they're personal and also when they're masked by something that only the audience knows is really their motivation, that to me is just what I call entertainment.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Motivation, Fall, Wind

  Source: collider.com

• It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you."

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Odd Things, Want, Entertainment

  Source: collider.com

• 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?

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Order

  Source: collider.com

• You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Running, Writing, People

• Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Watches, Stuff, Intention

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

• You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Letting Go, Focus, Needs

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

• It was a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word. Anybody could come in and say, "You know, I'm just not cool with that." We'd be like, "Who's that?" "Oh, I was just cleaning the trailers." It was nuts.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Nuts, Democracy, Cleaning

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

• Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Aria

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

• I think the goal is to make a well written scene seem like it's improvised and/or to come up with things that you find in the room that you couldn't have known until you get into the real situation, just try to improve things as you go along.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Real, Thinking, Goal

  "Sherlock Holmes 2 Cast & Crew Interview". Press conference, www.moviesonline.ca.

• If you're anything like me there are days when you're convinced you know more than everyone around you. Which is often confirmed by your interactions with people.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  People, Like Me, Interaction

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I know if you talk faster and use more ten-dollar words than everyone around you, you convince half of them that they should shut up because you know what you're talking about.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Talking, Dollars, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Generations

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Confused, School, Rocks

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Taking Things For Granted, Granted

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Years, Needs, Actors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Character, Feels, Subtlety

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Guy, Good Movie, Want

  Source: collider.com

• Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Acting, Misery, Sometimes

• It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Connected

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Saying Please, Used, Ecstatic

  "Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law On Set Interview SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 14, 2011.