Jeremy Renner Quotes

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

I want to be a good human being.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

I don't change. The things around me change.

Grab love of life every day. Because we're all gonna die. It's difficult to live that way. Most people are afraid to. Or can't. I find it very difficult.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

I want my personal life to be personal... And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life.

I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.

I'm a simple, simple man.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing's happening - but something else was happening.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.

I'll take any risk there is.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

I think it's great to be a part of a franchise that is successful. Any franchise is successful because it's a continuation and people have seen it.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

There is definitely a sense of pride to it - it's more precious when you cook something up from the beginning and you see it all the way to the end, and you get a little bit more of a say.

I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

I love music. I do play. It's like mathematics, and it's also emotional. It's nice to play, for no other reason than just to play.

We want to make people feel something after they buy that ticket.

I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.

I want to not do anything I've done before. That can come in any form.

Music I do just for me.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

Don [ Handfield] was actually one of the first guys I met in town back in '94. He was an actor and a writer and all this stuff.

I've done movies that nobody's seen, and that's no fun.

I'll always build houses.

There are rumblings of Captain America 3. I don’t know what’s going to happen there. I’ve got to find the time, man. I’m trying to stay home and I can’t.

I'm just happy to be working.

The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the publisher. The publisher actually said, "Call McDonald."

Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.

What matters is how I feel about it, cause if I feel good or bad about it, then the audience will feel good or bad about it and that's just sorta the job.

I think there's a great connection between these two characters for sure. I mean, I don't know if she's coming over for dinner on the Barton ranch.