"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."

Acting, Robert Downey, Jr.

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"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."

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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."

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"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."

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"I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me."

Emma Watson, British Actress

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"I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously."

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"Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not."

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"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."

Idea

"I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it."

Time

"I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it."

Son

"I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable."

Life

"I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy."

Actor

"With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily."

Rest

"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."

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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."

"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."

"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."

"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."

"I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me."

"I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously."

"Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not."

Explore more quotes by Robert Downey, Jr.

"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."

"I think you end up doing the stuff you were supposed to do at the time you were supposed to do it."

"I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it."

"I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable."

"I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor guy."

"With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily."

"Acting is always a challenge."

"Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks."

"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."

"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."