I’m doing a job [‘Tag’] that isn’t really requiring a ton of stunts. It’s not an action movie; it’s a comedy. It just happens to have a few stunts in it. So I don’t have to beat a whole lot of people up or do anything crazy. So it won’t really affect my job. … It affects how I get dressed in the morning. I can’t tie my shoes, but outside of that and everything else, I can kind of get by.

Jeremy Renner

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

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I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

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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.

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I want to be a good human being.

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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.

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I'm a simple, simple man.

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I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

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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.

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

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