Robert Downey Jr. admits he was fired from shoe store job after two weeks for 'sticky fingers'

Robert Downey Jr. tried out a handful of career paths before his acting career took off. The actor recalled being fired from one job for his "sticky fingers."

"Well, I worked at a sandwich shop. I worked at a shoe store, but I had sticky fingers and I got fired after two weeks," he told film critic Leonard Maltin at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, via People magazine. "This is before those closed-circuit cameras where they monitor who might be sitting. … I was not very good at it."

"And I worked in clubs and I worked at Thrifty's in Santa Monica," Downey Jr. added. "I made it to busboy, but I didn't really have the panache to be a waiter, I was told, so I had to resort to theater."