“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.”
"Listen, smile, accept, and then do what you thought you would do anyway."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Awareness
"Worrying is praying for something you don’t want."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Awareness
"Remember just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Hope
"Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change. So the thing is to get out and recognize the significance of that aggressive denial of your fate, come through the crucible forged into a stronger metal."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Transformation
"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."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Motivation
"The worth of a person lies in their character, not in their looks."
- Beauty and the Beast
Integrity
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."
- Baltasar Gracian
Integrity
"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."
- Hachiman Hikigaya
Integrity
"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."
- Gintoki Sakata
Integrity