Robert Downey Jr

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They’d make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while. About comic lines written by Mark Shaiman being removed for innuendo (i.e. Chip ‘n Dale are both strippers”) the week before for his presenting of Best Animated Film at the 77th Academy Awards: “For a while you get mad, then you get over it. They’re afraid of saying Olive Oyl is anorexic. It tells you about the state of humor. It’s strange to think: how afraid are you? We thought that they got the irony of it. I guess not.”

I’ve gotten to a point with fashion where I just don’t care. I wear and I do what I want because I like it, because I am confident in it, because it makes me feel good. That’s the only way you can do it.

It’s been quite a journey. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world!

I’ve been working so hard, I’m about to have a Mariah Carey.

[about political pundits suggesting Trump be given a chance to be president] Now, in the broadest sense, I get that impulse: hope for the best in the face of very long odds. It’s like we’re on a plane and we just found out our pilot is a wombat.

I don’t remember anyone’s name. How do you think the ‘dahling’ thing got started?

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.

It’s fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

I look like an angel, but I can play the bitch.

I always thought that was so strange that people would try to corral you and pigeonhole you in one category and not play you anywhere else.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don’t know what it is.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there’s many of my friends and family who didn’t get to see 50-years-old, and so, I’m celebrating for them too.

I’m not a flowerchild or anything like that… whatever it was.