Jeremy Renner Quotes

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.

It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

Write and create as much as you can, because if you're sitting around waiting for someone to give you a well-round, interesting, incredible role on a silver platter, you're going to be a real cute skeleton covered in cobwebs when that happens.

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a 'Forward, march!' kind of attitude.

Think new thoughts. Grab life with both hands, take opportunities you have, & create the ones you need.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own.

You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.

I don't care what the depth chart is. I don't care what I'm on. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to seize every opportunity that I get, because that's the most important thing.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.