I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen.
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it.
Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.'
Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.
Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.
I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.
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.
Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.
If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.
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 think I just never wanted to be the creepy guy where people say, 'Why do his leading ladies keep getting younger and younger, and why do they think he's so hot even though we know that the girl who's playing this part actually has a handsome boyfriend?'
Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last name isn't even Downey. My dad changed his name when he wanted to get into the Army and was underage. My real name is Robert Elias. I feel like I'm still looking for a home in some way.
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.'
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
