Jeremy Renner Quotes

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

Busy, Creative, Dead

I'm a simple, simple man.
Jeremy Renner

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

Feelings, Growing, Taught

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?
Jeremy Renner

Good, Successful, Sometimes

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
Jeremy Renner

Life, Change, Work

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.
Jeremy Renner

Work, Good, Bad

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

Famous, Wanted, Wants

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

Freedom, Different, Through

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.
Jeremy Renner

Life, Fear, Around

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
Jeremy Renner

Music, Guitar, Sing

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.
Jeremy Renner

Life, Love, Work

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.
Jeremy Renner

Character, Looking, Film

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

Life, Job, Actor

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

Great, Wrong, Tell

Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You have to be flexible and creative. You have to move fast, be prepared - or it quickly becomes costly.
Jeremy Renner

Wrong, Creative, Movie

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

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
Jeremy Renner

Character, Between, Actor

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
Jeremy Renner

I don't watch TV.
Jeremy Renner

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

Sense, Idea, Purpose

I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.
Jeremy Renner

Makes, Guess, Beat

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.
Jeremy Renner

Enjoy, Sit, Truly

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.
Jeremy Renner

Play, Movie, Characters

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.
Jeremy Renner

Life, Fear, Live

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.
Jeremy Renner

Time, Power, Romantic

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 7, 1971

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