Top 88 Renner Quotes
#2. I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.
Jeremy Renner
#3. 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
#5. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#6. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#7. 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
#8. When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.
Jeremy Renner
#9. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#10. The thing is, memory is about trust. We have to trust that what we remember is fact. And we have to trust what other people remember for things we never saw.
James Renner
#11. 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
#12. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#13. It wasn't the footman she was afraid of - it was those he was parroting. Alfie was the sort of dim-noll who never had his own thoughts but borrowed other people's.
Ellen Renner
#14. Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him.
James Renner
#15. 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
#16. Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow
Jeremy Renner
#17. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#18. 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 (laughs). I'm trying to stay home and I can't.
Jeremy Renner
#19. During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all the time. I kept thinking, and it's more beautiful in Spanish, but I wanted to bottle his breathing.
Kevin Renner
#20. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#21. I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.
Jeremy Renner
#22. 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
#23. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#24. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#25. I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!
Jeremy Renner
#26. 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 ...
Jeremy Renner
#27. I have a hard time saying "no" if it's right. I don't say "no" to say "no." I said "no" when I didn't have a pot to piss in. I still said "no" to big money jobs because they didn't make creative sense to me.
Jeremy Renner
#28. I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.
Jeremy Renner
#29. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#30. Never despise a pawn. If it succeeds in crossing the board safely, it becomes a queen - the most powerful piece in the game.
Ellen Renner
#31. I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.
Jeremy Renner
#32. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#33. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#34. 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
#37. Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.
Jeremy Renner
#38. Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
Jeremy Renner
#39. 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
#42. Oh, all those ridiculous people with zero talent who spend their lives making sure everyone knows their name. Those stupid, stupid people.
Jeremy Renner
#43. 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
#44. And Joss, Gregg, Renner, and Hiddleston confirmed that there was "some Avengers affinity" for the video game Dance Dance Revolution. But
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#45. I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.
Jeremy Renner
#47. There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
Jeremy Renner
#48. 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
#50. I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
Jeremy Renner
#51. Our modern civilization returns exceedingly little of what it borrows. -Martin Renner
Michael Pollan
#52. I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.
Jeremy Renner
#53. 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
#54. I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.
Jeremy Renner
#55. 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
#56. I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
Jeremy Renner
#57. 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
#58. I can't totally talk about why we divide, but ... it's interesting because we're doing this scene today that's sort of the pinnacle of that. Two gangs fighting against each other, ultimately knowing that ... ya know, it's like friends fighting friends. To me it's fun, personally.
Jeremy Renner
#59. The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.
Jeremy Renner
#60. 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."
Jeremy Renner
#61. I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
Jeremy Renner
#62. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#63. I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.
Jeremy Renner
#64. And the process, the ritual, quieted the hum of his mind so he could write.
James Renner
#66. It takes a lot out of you to do a stage play, but I'd love to do that. I'd love to continue to do challenging material, whatever shape or form that comes in.
Jeremy Renner
#67. Dedication is writing your name on the botoom of a blank sheet of paper and handling it to the Lord for Him to fill in
Rick Renner
#68. People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.
Jeremy Renner
#69. I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
Jeremy Renner
#70. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#72. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#73. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#74. 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
#76. Everyone carries seeds when they talk to each other.
Barbara Renner
#77. 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.
Jeremy Renner
#80. When I was growing up, I wasn't taught how to feel or communicate feelings.
Jeremy Renner
#81. I want to not do anything I've done before. That can come in any form.
Jeremy Renner
#82. 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
#83. I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.
Jeremy Renner
#84. There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.
James Renner
#85. ... but Charlie had seen love and prise flare in the brown eyes, burning away every trace of sadness and timidity. Rose Petch, she knew, would never abandon her child the way Charlie's mother had abandoned her. ... Charlie stood, trembling, torn nearly in two by jealousy and longing ...
Ellen Renner
#86. She wanted to cry because she had hit Tobias when he was trying to be kind. She wanted to cry for herself. Most of all she wanted to cry for her father. But the pain was too fierce for tears. It burnt them to ash.
Ellen Renner
#87. I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.
Jeremy Renner
#88. When you're lost in the middle of a set of dominoes, you can't see the pattern that's forming in the falling blocks around you.
James Renner
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