Jeremy Renner Quotes

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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• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Find
  • Loss
  • Moving On

• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Pictures
  • Too

• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

  Flume
  • Work
  • Music
  • Think

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

  Mako
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Stereotypes

• I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Advertising

• We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gold

• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Animal
  • Chaos
  • WIld

• I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Games
  • Rules
  • Percent

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• Harry Potter is awesome.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Awesome
  • Harry Potter
  • Harry

• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Hope
  • Pressure
  • Someone

• I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.

  

  TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
  • Words
  • Read
  • Icarus

• Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Girl

• In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.

  

  Jaromir Jagr

• 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
  • Words
  • Action
  • Hurt