Top 70 Jeremy Renner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a simple, simple man.”

— Jeremy Renner

2. “I want to be a good human being.”

— Jeremy Renner

3. “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

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

8. “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

9. “I don’t do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.”

— Jeremy Renner

10. “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

11. “I’m able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that’s a great blessing.”

— Jeremy Renner

12. “People love to yammer on about things that aren’t real.”

— Jeremy Renner

13. “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

14. “I’m just happy to be working.”

— Jeremy Renner

15. “I’ll take any risk there is.”

— Jeremy Renner

16. “Getting to play with Thor’s hammer while he stroked my bow.”

— Jeremy Renner

17. “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.”

— Jeremy Renner

18. “I’m not very good at taking compliments. It’s better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.”

— Jeremy Renner

19. “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

20. “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

21. “I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.”

— Jeremy Renner

22. “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

23. “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.”

— Jeremy Renner

24. “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

25. “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

26. “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

27. “I was an athlete when I was growing up.”

— Jeremy Renner

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

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

— Jeremy Renner

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

— Jeremy Renner

33. “So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing’s happening – but something else was happening.”

— Jeremy Renner

34. “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

35. “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

36. “Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.”

— Jeremy Renner

37. “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

38. “I know it’s a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don’t believe anybody wants to be famous.”

— Jeremy Renner

39. “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

40. “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

41. “I’m blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.”

— Jeremy Renner

42. “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

43. “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.”

— Jeremy Renner

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

— Jeremy Renner

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

— Jeremy Renner

46. “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

47. “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.”

— Jeremy Renner

48. “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

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

— Jeremy Renner

50. “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