Robert Downey Jr. Quotes

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

Men often act knowingly against their interest

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

I know that young people sometimes, caught up in the moment, make some very foolish decisions.

It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.

I have a history, even going back to my time in college doing plays, of always hurting myself at some point in whatever I'm in. Like, always! And it's usually my own doing and me being rambunctious and going, 'Oh, I can do that better,' or 'Oh, I can do that quicker,' and it results in injury.

If you knew what you were doing, that it would hinder you, you wouldn't do it.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

I see these college kids taking these crazy shots, and it's like, taking that shot is going to leave you without a job. You're not Steph Curry.

I'm a smart guy, I like to think of myself as a smart guy, but sometimes I go out there and do a lot of dumb stuff.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

You're the only man I know who would light a match to look into a gas can.

Cardinals are never off-base. They are often ill-advised.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.

Humans have a tendency towards short-term thinking.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

Gamble until you die. I do not really care.