Jeremy Renner

“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.”

“I'm not violent.”

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

“I'll always build houses.”

“I'm just happy to be working.”

“I want to be a good human being.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”