I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.
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 this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.
Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.
Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just more of a thin cut.
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
I understand reversal of fortune; that usually has come through my own hand, but you know, you live life on life's terms.
In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.
Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.
But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?
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.
Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.
Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.
I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.
I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.
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.
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.
I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.
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.