Jeremy Renner quotes - page 2

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. (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.

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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.

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

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Music I do just for me.

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

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

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I was an athlete when I was growing up.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

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I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I'm a simple, simple man.

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

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I'll take any risk there is. (Jeremy Renner)

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Jeremy Renner

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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0

Occupation: American Actor
Born: January 7, 1971
Quotes count: 58
Wikipedia: Jeremy Renner

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