Jeremy Renner Quotes

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and meaty.

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is well thought, then I have to grab it.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.

I love characters who can rile an audience so much - it means you've done your job well.

For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

The only pressure, as an actor, is to step into Eric Carter's shoes and make him as fully and as complex and as flawed and as human as I could.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

You have to find out how to become the character.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.