Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Downey Sr.

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Robert John Downey Sr. was an American filmmaker and actor. He was known for writing and directing the underground film Putney Swope, a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Downey Sr.'s films during the 1960s were "strictly take-no-prisoners affairs, with minimal budgets and outrageous satire, effectively pushing forward the countercultural agenda of the day."

American - Actor | Born: June 24, 1936

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I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

Robert Downey Sr.

Godard is a phony to me. His technique is great, but he just keeps replaying the same political rhetoric.

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A movie can't change anybody; it can only confirm what you already believe.

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If the world's gonna end, Trump's gonna have something to do with it.

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I'm really happy for my son. He's turned his life around. I'm so proud of him.

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I'm not going to stop just because I'm 78. Bunuel made films into his eighties, and he could hardly see. I hope I don't run into that problem.

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I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.

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A film should always at least be about something.

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When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something that was done Off-Off Broadway in a theater. It was called 'What Else Is There?' and it was four or five people playing missiles in a silo waiting to take off.

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To get me in to the Army underage, my mother signed me in saying that my birth certificate was lost in a fire in Nashville, so I got in underage. I was 16. She did because I begged her to do it.

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To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.

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Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place, and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on.

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Life is too easy when you're a movie star. People will do anything you want and get you anything you want.

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'Tropic Thunder' I think is a great film.

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I made experimental commercials in the experimental division of a production house, Film X, that made commercials for ad agencies.

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Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

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I'm a boxing fan.

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I don't look at it as a career. I've just made a few films, and I want to make a few more.

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Even with the lowest budget in the world, you better get some names in there; that calms people down. Then be sure your leading character is in a hurry.

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My parents got divorced when I was really young.

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I'm too young to be a king and too committed to be a queen.

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