Quotes By Jeremy Renner

I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.

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.

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

I'm just happy to be working.

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

There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I want my personal life to be personal.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

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

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 will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

I'll take any risk there is.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?