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Robert Downey, Jr.
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: April 4
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Robert John Downey Jr.
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Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
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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.
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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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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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Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
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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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It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.
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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.
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I think a hero is someone who, if abroad or traveling, they go to the GOOP website to see what shops to go to, what restaurants to eat at, what clothes to buy, and they do that not fearlessly but in spite of their fear.
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I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.
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I had this bad-boy-from-New York vibe going, dressed like a punk rocker with spiky hair.
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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.
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