Robert Downey, Sr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.
-- Robert Downey, Sr.

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I could deal with this [Pokemon] if I smoked a couple of grams of blacktar heroin.
-- Robert Downey, Sr.

#Couple #Pokemon #Heroin
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. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago.
-- Robert Downey, Sr.

#Country #Leader #Battle
I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor.
-- Robert Downey, Sr.

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It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.
-- Robert Downey, Sr.

#Nice #Views #Perspective

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand
Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
Take up the weapons of the glorious army for the salvation of many thousands.
The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
These guys are not from the Iraqi army, ... These are not Iraqi soldiers. They are not members of any of the Iraqi armed forces.
The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Robert Downey, Sr. famous quotes

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