READ: Robert Downey Jr.’s May 1988 Rolling Stone interview

Where you can finally source these oft-quoted Downey-isms including:

• “I’ve learned that ten 14-year-old girls could definitely kill me if they got excited enough. It’s weird. You go, ‘God, she’s got a good headlock.”

• “Tofu is the root of all evil, and there’s only one thing that can change a man’s mind, and that’s a modified Uzi with an extra-long clip.”

• “It doesn’t matter whether or not you can act. If you can go into a room and make these sweaters want to have you around for six or eight weeks, that’s what’ll really get you a job.”

And these other gems like:

• “I’m not an exhibitionist, really, but I have no reservations, either. Otherwise, why, in Less Than Zero, would I agree to do a scene about somebody going down on some guy in Palm Springs for coke?”

• “I went to meet Robert Conrad for a TV show, and he was like ‘How do you support yourself when you’re not working as an actor?’ And I said, ‘My spine.’ He didn’t like that.”

• “Material pleasures can make you happy. Or on the other hand, they can make you so much more depressed. Like I love my car. It’s a BMW L6 635 CSI with a racing-engine suspension. Black with white interior. But I left her for a week, come back, and the battery’s totally dead. Fifty-two grand on this baby – with a discount – and it won’t start. If I had a Hyundai, I could have come home six months later and it would at least start. Might not have a hand-stitched interior, but at least I could travel.”

And he looked like this:

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