Robert Downey Jr. Quotes

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

I never got a chance to be a teenager.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

I never had a true childhood.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I think you always have regrets.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

I feel like I died as a child.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!