Robert Downey Jr. Quotes

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.

As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive I wouldn't be working at all.

You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

I get bored in Hollywood.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.