Robert Downey Jr. is on the cover of August’s Rolling Stone Magazine. In the issue he talks about his struggle with addiction and his new life as a big-budget leading man. Here’s a few select quotes:
“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 pussy, you’re going to be just fine.”
On this ‘transition phase’:
“I’m between two phases right now, pre-Iron Man and post-Iron Man, and the transition can be tricky,” he says, shifting and smoking. “It used to be, I’d drive onto a studio lot, and the guard was like, ‘Less Than Zero dude, I loved Chaplin!’ Now it’s, ‘Iron Man!’ It’s not an algorithm anymore. It’s a fixed number. Things have been zeroed out; it’s the beginning of something. But right now, it’s still a void, and we tend to think of the void as an abyss or a vacuum with nothing there. In fact, it’s a new road, and what you should do on this new road is close for repairs — close right away, because that old vehicle is not going to work on that new road. I mean, if the cosmos is a loving, healing thing that also spins real fast and erupts and does violent stuff, and if there really is some kind of order to the whole thing, then everything that’s led up to this moment has to be part of it, or the math doesn’t work. But in this transition phase, I really am trying to live as much like a lizard as I can. Hot, rock, sun, fly, tongue.”
On his phone ringing non-stop:
“Right now, my BlackBerry is literally overloading and crashing, and the phone is never not ringing,” he says as he takes it out and turns it off. “It’s crazy. Like a Super Bowl. Like a landslide. Like nothing I’ve ever experienced.”
On his ’job’:
“I’m not an actor. It’s my day job, and I learned how to hustle it really good. [But] it’s a hustle. I got some fuckin’ juice, man, I got some tools. . . . I learned some shit. I learned shit on the streets. It was providence, dude, and proximity to where I could get my grift on. . . . This is fuckin’ gypsy heaven, dude — there’s a million suckers out here.”
The new issue of Rolling Stone hits newsstands Aug. 8.
source : dailystab
Robert Downey Jr. has decided he’s not ready to tell-all about his life just yet and has returned his advance to his publisher, HarperCollins.
HarperCollins announced the project two years ago and the book was originally due to hit shelves later this year. It was promoted as a ‘candid look at the highs and lows of his life and career,’ which would mean stories from his past fight with drugs, among other things.
But now, after postponing plans for the tell-all, he has returned the advance on his memoirs and publishers at HarperCollins have been told it won’t be written, according to the Associated Press.
Nobody is answering to why the change of heart. Downey Jr.’s spokeswoman Britney Ross has declined to go into details about his decision.
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