Jeremy Renner Quotes

I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

My brother started in the music business, and I was an actor - we were both in the entertainment industry, but doing separate things. Then he went over to New Line and started their soundtrack department, that's how he got his foot in the door.

If I read a script in the future that I feel like I could have a little fun with or that reflects me well, it may be one of those things that I try out. But, of course, music's my number one priority.

When I was 17-years-old, I was in the music business.

Music is something that I have to do on a regular basis. It really is my life and I absolutely love it. It's a part of my day-to-day. So if I had to choose, it would be music. But I love acting too.

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

I've wanted to be Mick Jagger since I was 18. One of the things I love about music is that you don't have to be dependent on other people like you are in the film business. I hate being dependent on anyone. With my music, I can do whatever I want. I also think it's made me more relaxed as an actress.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.