In Style, November 2005
"Almost every day I change at least three times. If I go away for a weekend, I swear to God I need the biggest Samsonite you can imagine. Everybody underestimates how much they need for a weekend to not have to repeat or do laundry - unless you're one of those funky bunch who say, "I'll just put a jacket on over this." Even when I was doing time, I didn't have that attitude. I'll get to my Dan Haggerty period at some point, I'm sure."

In Style, November 2005
"I could be the darling of Sotheby's now if I had saved things like Matsuda ties and Gaultier jackets from 1986 that had everything but AA batteries attached. I left them on locations, in girls' kitchens, dance clubs. I know people who still have their first Memphis Belle bomberjacket - how do they do it?"

Detour, March 1995
"I had this whole period I went through where I was really super, super into my clothes. I had tons of clothes, and I would do this combination, and that combination. It was a whole scene, the mixing and matching - a whole production. Now, I'm just very much over it. Even just the brain effort to do it. I can't be bothered anymore."

W, September 1994
Downey has long been one of Hollywood's sharpest dressers. He dove deeply into designer wear "as soon as my per diem became bigger than my weekly salary. But my style used to be much wilder in the Eighties. Now I'm totally into comfort, so it's big pants and easy T-shirts." When he does have to dress up, his favorite designers these days are Dries Van Noten and Matsuda, "the God of the century."

In Fashion, October 1988
"I always remembered my clothes weren't my own, or they were hand-me-downs or my dad would go on a big shopping spree because he had money for a minute and then he'd be broke and I'd lose the clothes. So now I'm way into it. It's great. I feel a kind of affinity for the baroque times, and hey, at least I'm not wearing purple wigs."