Quotes By Jeremy Renner

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.

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 think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

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

I'll always build houses.

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

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

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.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

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.

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

I'm just happy to be working.

I'm very lucky.

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'm not violent.

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

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 was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.

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

I want to be a good human being.

I don't watch TV.

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.

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.

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.

I'm a simple, simple man.

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