Robert Downey Jr Net Worth

Robert Downey Jr's Quotes

• I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane, I guess.
• The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.
• I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.
• A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle or something somewhere on my body. That's okay.
• I've become a picky little bitch. I've never bothered to plan projects before. I just used to throw the script across the room and say, "Why do they keep sending me this horseshit?" And then I'd start rehearsals two weeks later.

Interesting Facts about Robert Downey Jr

1. (August 2, 2000) Released from jail on $5,000 bail.
2. (March 31, 1998) Released from jail to complete his six-month jail sentence at a drug rehabilitation center. Downey caused a stir when he was freed to work on a movie.
3. (February 13, 1998) He got into fight with another inmate at the Los Angeles County Jail, where he was serving time for a probation violation, and was treated for a cut over his nose.
4. Jailed for 180 days for violating probation. [December 1997]
5. (October 17, 1997) Probation revoked after continued drug use.
6. Remanded to a secure drug rehabilitation center. [August 1996]
7. During traffic stop for speeding, he was arrested for drunk driving, possession of heroin, and possession of an unloaded pistol in his pickup truck. This was his first reported brush with the law at age 31. He was given a suspended prison sentence of three years, and granted probation with requirements of random drug testing and drug counselling. [August 1996]
8. Names Peter O'Toole as his favorite actor.
9. Lived with Sarah Jessica Parker for seven years during the 1980s.
10. Son of Robert Downey Sr. and Elsie Downey.
11. Son Indio Falconer Downey, with his first wife Deborah Falconer, was born on September 7, 1993.
12. Attended Stagedoor Manor.
13. (June 22, 1999) Sent to a rehab center at the Los Angeles County jail while waiting for an August 5 hearing.
14. His father introduced him to drugs, offering him a marijuana joint when he was age 8.
15. While drunk, he wandered into a neighbor's Malibu home that he thought was his own, and fell asleep in their child's bed. He was arrested for being under the influence of drugs, which was a third violation of his probation.
16. He took daily drug tests during the filming of Two Girls and a Guy (1997).
17. Once worked as a piece of living art in a SoHo nightclub in New York City.
18. (August 6, 1999) After Downey's three violations of probation for drug and alcohol abuse in a three-year span of time since he was spared a prison sentence and placed on probation, Malibu Judge Lawrence Mira stated that he was out of options. He was sentencing Downey to prison, he said, to save his life, because he would not take the responsibility of refraining from alcohol and drug use on his own. The Judge invoked the three years' sentence in state prison that had been suspended in 1996.Downey spent two weeks in a state prison reception center at Wasco, California, for orientation. On August 25, 1999, he was transferred to a Department of Corrections prison named "SATF" (Substance Abuse Treatment Facility) for drug dependent prisoners in Corcoran California. Scheduled release date: November 2, 2000. SATF is across the street from the other Corcoran Prison, where inmates were shot to death on the exercise yard during fights in the 1990s. Downey's lawyers have approached the Malibu judge several times in the last 11 months to request Downey's release, but the Judge has refused.
19. Downey's lawyers petitioned the State Court of Appeals in Los Angeles, stating that Downey had already served enough time because the Malibu judge had made errors in calculating his sentence. He had not given credit for the several times Downey spent in lockdown rehab units and in pre-sentencing confinement. Downey's lawyers claimed that he should have been released in February 2000.
20. (November 25, 2000) Downey re-arrested on drugs and weapons charges in Palm Springs, California, at the luxurious Merv Griffin resort, after an anonymous tip to police. Downey was found alone, with cocaine and methamphetamines. He cooperated with police, spent the night in jail, and was released the next morning on $15,000.00 bail. Downey had been on a career upswing with his successful stint on Ally McBeal (1997), and his upcoming stage performance as Hamlet, set for January 2001 in Los Angeles, to be directed by his friend Mel Gibson.