Jeremy Renner Quotes

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.

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.

You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."

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

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.

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'll take any risk there is.

Marvel's really smart about continuing the storylines of all the different movies from Ultron into this one and blah to blah to blah - it's pretty seamless. So where we left off in Ultron is definitely picked up in Cap 3 here, pretty smoothly I think.

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

I want to be a good human being.

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.

Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow

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.

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.

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

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'll always build houses.

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

Yeah there's always something different. He's still limited to what he can do - ya know, no super powers, just a high skill set. But they have a cool thing - this time I learn very quickly... um, bow. 'Cause in the first Avengers he had that short bow that cracks open, and then I can crack and close with a staff. So now I'm a master with a staff apparently. I have to learn that today.

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.

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

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

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

I think, strangely, a strip club can tell you a lot about the city you're in. If you call a strip club "Tuna's," I've gotta go in there. Usually you're not seeing the top talent around, but it's not about that. It's about the experience.

Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye type of thing. There's that kind of irreverence to it the humor and in the reality of what's really going on that plays into this movie.

Oh, all those ridiculous people with zero talent who spend their lives making sure everyone knows their name. Those stupid, stupid people.

I'm a simple, simple man.

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

We kept moving forward, kept pretty particular about certain things. Don Handfield is really great with story, so we kept working on it from that angle and developed a lot of IP over the years, which we became very proud of.

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.

Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.

Why I'm so stimulated by [producing] is it becomes more proactive. Instead of waiting around for a script to come in, or some movie trying to go. You're waiting around always for that opportunity, which is great, but I like to be a little bit more proactive. I'm a very action-oriented guy - I'm a doer. The company really became this spearhead for that sort of attitude, and so that, to me, was the most exciting part of it.

Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.

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

I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.

I had to do a lot of work and allow myself to go places that were a little scary. You know when you play a guy like that it allows you the freedom to explore really weird parts about you. And it's OK. In order to really get it, I've got to allow myself to go there.

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 think that'll always be there for [Clint] Barton, right? You have real life, and then you have fight life. And that's the character that I love now - discovering that in him makes him a very sort of accessible Avenger. That'll always be there, I'm sure. And it certainly plays in this one.

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

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

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

Barton is a pretty brass tacks kind of guy. Kinda get the job done so I can go home. So I don't think it's very difficult for him to decide.

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.

And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life. How about I go peek in your window, take what underwear you wore last night, whose husband you were fucking, and shove that in the megaphone throughout your neighborhood? How does that feel? It's none of your goddamn business.

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