58 Quotes by Robert Downey, Jr.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

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.

Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.