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Robert Downey, Jr

(1965) Actor

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Robert Downey, Jr is an actor.

Quick Facts About Robert Downey, Jr

Born: April 4, 1965
Profession: Actor

About Robert Downey, Jr

[Wikidata] American actor (born 1965)... | [Wikipedia] Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor and producer. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Downey was the highest-paid actor in the world annually from 2013 to 2015. Known for his versatility across rol

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Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen. I have such an overwhelming sense that if you're in the…

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Fear

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I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

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Assurance

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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…

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Excited

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I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I…

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Confused

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I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.

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Knows

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If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.

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Clients

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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…

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Ambitious

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

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Happiness

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The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

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Behinds

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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…

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Beats

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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…

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Clothes

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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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Giving

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Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

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Fear

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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…

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Controlling everything

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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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Caves

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When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

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Scripts

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Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

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Actors

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Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

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Looks

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

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Failure

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I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

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Hero

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And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide'…

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Able

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You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and…

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Darling

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Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But…

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Crazy

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I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

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Felt

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With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because…

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Hustle

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