Robert Downey Jr (Actor)

"Here is what I've learned," Downey says. "I am very very very high maintenance. Even without being the inventor of any of my own impediments from this day forward, it's still tough, it's still chaotic. Because I am not," he pauses and again there is that look, just for a moment, before he shuts it down with the big movie star smile, "I'm not on a level playing ground with most of my peers." - Downey to The Los Angeles Times, Aug. 28, 2005

"I'm not an actor. It's my day job, and I learned how to hustle it really good, and I have a love for it, and I get it, but I don't know what I'm doing." - Downey to Esquire magazine, March 2007

"I'm such a work in progress at the moment, it's crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I don't forget the past, I'm cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but she's really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the p--sy, you're going to be just fine." - Downey to Rolling Stone Magazine, September 2008

"What's amazing is no matter how much I f**k up, it keeps straightening itself out." - Downey quoted in Premiere, Oct. 2, 2002

"What's the f*cking point of crashing, burning and rising like a phoenix out of your own ashes into the same exact f*cking thing you were before, sans drugs or alcohol? What's the value in that?" - Downey Jr. to Playboy magazine, December 1997

Downey has appeared in films directed by his father, such as, "Rented Lips" (1988) and "Too Much Sun" (1991)

Honored Feb. 19, 2004, with the Man of the Year award by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation's oldest college drama group.

In November 2000, Downey was arrested for drug possession an probation violation.

On June 23, 1996, Downey was arrested in Malibu on charges of driving while under the influence, carrying a concealed weapon and drug possession. He was later arrested for criminal trespass and for leaving a court-ordered rehab. Downey was sent to a "locked-down" drug rehab clinic for treatment. He was later sentenced to time served in jail and three years probation.