Jeremy Renner Quotes

To be able to perform at a high level, to be able to do things that no other fighter can do, you have to practice it. And the only way you can practice is by sparring, by fighting another man.

I'm useless with a sword in real life.

When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.

I used to do traditional weapons training, and I wasn't bad with a sword.

I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

The way is in training.

We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.

I've never changed my approach to acting. I've always felt like I've gotten better. I think that all of us can get better. I feel like, in my acting, I'm better than I was three pictures ago. I think about it. I'm a slow study. It takes me a long time to grasp the material, in order to perform it. But when I come to the set, on the first day, I know the whole movie. That's why I have to start early.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

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