Jeremy Renner Quotes

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.

It's an interesting situation to be in to play a cop on TV and to know so many police officers through our training and our advisors.

When you play a cop, it's a different feeling altogether.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

One of the things about acting is you can always use your life. You have to recall how you are and how people are and how you relate.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

When I got the part, I tried to remember Batman as I knew him when I was a kid - with emotional recall.

I was an ordinary student at school and, at the same time, an actor. But I was not the popular kid, which helped me to play Peter Parker better.

There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.

I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'