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Robert Downey, Jr.
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: April 4
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Robert John Downey Jr.
RDJ
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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.
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Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not 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.
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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 there 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.
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You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.
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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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I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.
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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 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?
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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.
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I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.
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Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change.
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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.
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I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.
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There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.
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McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.
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A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
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