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Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

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Jeremy Renner
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 7
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You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.
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If you dissect my career as an actor, and you can pull out more than enough of those type of movies, from The Hurt Locker and The Town and so on and so forth, and that's kind of where our wheelhouse is. We love it.
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Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.
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I'm just happy to be working.
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I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.
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I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.
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I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.
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Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
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I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.
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I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.
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People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
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We want to make people feel something after they buy that ticket.
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I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
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There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.
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I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.
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Barton is a pretty brass tacks kind of guy. Kinda get the job done so I can go home. So I don't think it's very difficult for him to decide.
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Don [ Handfield] was actually one of the first guys I met in town back in '94. He was an actor and a writer and all this stuff.
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I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.
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So I take a little sleeping pill, pop it and realize nothing's happening - but something else was happening.
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