Jeremy Renner
I'm just happy to be working.
I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.
I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
I'm a simple, simple man.
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.
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.Collection: Love Life
I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.Collection: Faces
Oh, all those ridiculous people with zero talent who spend their lives making sure everyone knows their name. Those stupid, stupid people.Collection: Zero
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.Collection: Husband
I guess gritty is the word that you said. But it has a different tone. We're not flying around in different universes - it's a bit more earthy.Collection: Different Universes
Aren't we taught as kids that we're beautiful because we feel beautiful and not because someone else says so? You don't look like the model on the magazine cover but you can still be beautiful, so I can't say I really want to change anything. I'm happy with the flaws I have.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Order
I want my personal life to be personal... And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life.Collection: Want
Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.Collection: Tangible
I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.Collection: Expectations
I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do. I want to skip to work. I don't want to repeat anything. What the future holds, I don't know, but that's what I like. I'll take any risk there is.Collection: Character
Our friendship [ with Don Handfield] has remained all that time, and I'm godfather to his kids, but then when The Hurt Locker came around, I just knew there was a lot of opportunity that was coming in, and just couldn't really manifest any opportunities because things were busy.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Jobs
We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.Collection: World
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.Collection: Thinking
I'm an actor for hire, and I go do a job.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Jobs
Don [ Handfield] was actually one of the first guys I met in town back in '94. He was an actor and a writer and all this stuff.Collection: Guy
I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.Collection: Thinking
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."Collection: Play
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.Collection: Character
If you dissect my career as an actor, and you can pull out more than enough of those type of movies, from The Hurt Locker and The Town and so on and so forth, and that's kind of where our wheelhouse is. We love it.Collection: Hurt
Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.Collection: Trying
We want to make people feel something after they buy that ticket.Collection: People
I've done movies that nobody's seen, and that's no fun.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Smart
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.Collection: Skills
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.Collection: Nice
We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.Collection: Want
Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bowCollection: Play
I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.Collection: Blessing
We had tried to get a couple books that were written about Ray Kroc, and one of the books, we called the publisher. The publisher actually said, "Call McDonald."Collection: Couple
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.Collection: Home
So there's that, and then there's always things you can do with the tips. Except for this, what they call the arrow tips, they'll all be non-lethal cause again we're not trying kill anybody, just sort of take control of the situation. They'll probably throw in a lot of gimmicks with the tips and trick arrows, and things like that. And ya the new, cool.Collection: Arrows
Yeah yeah, it's not so ethereal this time, it's a bit more rooted I feel like. Not that Joss 's wasn't, it was just a broader stroke that Joss was doing with all the Avengers. The Russo brothers are taking this Avengers 2.5, if you will, in keeping it still a Captain America movie. It's very sort of boots on the ground kinda thing, except for the flyers.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Play
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.Collection: Jobs
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.Collection: Pride
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.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Fun
I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!Collection: Light