Robert Downey Jr. » Quotes

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-a-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.

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom (on "Ally McBeal" (1997)). I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

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 Supertramp 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's a blanket statement to say, "That guy's really sharp and amicable and nice," because there's a little bit of a--hole in every nice guy, and there's a little bit of genius in every moron.

(on his addiction to drugs): It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth, and I like the taste of metal.

I've become a picky little bitch. 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.

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.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane, I guess.

I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.

I've become a picky little bitch. 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 rehearsels two weeks later.

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.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.