95+ Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes On Charismatic, Versatile And Iconic

Robert Downey, Jr. is an American actor, producer, and singer. He is best known for his roles in Marvel films such as Iron Man, Avengers, and Sherlock Holmes. He has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Robert Downey, Jr. on life, charismatic, versatile.

Top 10 Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes

1. People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.
2. People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.
3. I don't need an Iron Man suit. I'm already a weapon of mass seduction.
4. I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
5. I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?
6. At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.
7. I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.
8. The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.
9. McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.
10. I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

Robert Downey, Jr. Short Quotes

• It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal
• My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
• I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.
• Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change.
• Nobody learns a German aria overnight, except Jared Harris.
• Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?
• Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem.
• To me, friendship means loving tolerance.
• I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."
• There's somewhere you're supposed to go, and if you get quiet enough, you'll make it.

Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes About Life

I need a lot of support... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic. — Robert Downey, Jr.

There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Robert Downey, Jr. Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I've always felt that if you're not on your side, why should anyone else be. So I always encourage people to be confident, and sometime even a little falsely so, just so you can give yourself an opportunity. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid. — Robert Downey, Jr.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean? — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

I'm a soldier who didn't know how nasty the battle was going to be, and now, I've got a purple heart and I'm back. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Everyone has a story, and the story changes, and the more I can root into the truth of things - it's so hard - I don't think anyone ever really puts it all together. But somewhere along the way it all became fused. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Tofu is the root of all evil, and there's only one thing that can change a man's mind, and that's a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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

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. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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. — Robert Downey, Jr.

[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

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.

You know, when you're part of a comedic duo, you can take breaks. It's kind of like having a partner that is good with a kid. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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. — Robert Downey, Jr.

The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

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.

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.

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one. — Robert Downey, Jr.

If I was a Pokemon, I'll either be a Psyduck or a Jigglypuff. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I really don't want to thank my wife because I could be bussing tables at the Daily Grill right now if not for her. Jesus, what a gig that'd be. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

I make faces for cash and chicken. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you cant go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You cant. I wouldnt wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

The audience can feel the subtleties of the characters. — Robert Downey, Jr.

You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

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.

It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen. I have such an overwhelming sense that if you're in the right state of heart, the next right thing appears to you. — Robert Downey, Jr.

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks to how bright he is. — Robert Downey, Jr.

And last but not the least — Robert Downey, Jr.

I don't want to be so confident in myself. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there. — Robert Downey, Jr.

I think it's miraculous that anybody survives themselves. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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.

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.

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.

I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything. — Robert Downey, Jr.

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

I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals — Robert Downey, Jr.

Acting is always a challenge. — Robert Downey, Jr.

If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client. — Robert Downey, Jr.

It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Life Lessons by Robert Downey, Jr.

1. Robert Downey, Jr. has taught us that no matter how many times you fail, you can still come back and succeed if you are determined and willing to work hard.
2. He has also shown us that it is possible to overcome personal struggles and use them to become a better person.
3. Finally, he has demonstrated that it is possible to reinvent yourself and become a successful actor, no matter what your past is.