Jeremy Renner Quotes

I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

Talking makes the fight bigger... When the fight is over, everyone goes in opposite sides with money in the pocket. You have to talk trash because that brings money.

We've stayed with the business and even though we have the arguments and disagreements that eight guys in a building trying to do a job would have, we try to keep that off the cameras because it's too much drama. Really what it is is we have eight guys who are having fun doing what they do.

Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.

I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.

I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Conflict is always fun to play.

I don't fight people for fun.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

War is show business.

Anytime anyone of my friends in my camp, if we argue, we gonna fight for real.

The audiences love to see me fight on screen.

There is nothing more I love more than being in a throw-down on a Saturday night.

I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.

There's a difference between action and violence. Violence isn't fun.

The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

The major violence now is because of a plethora, explosion almost, of rebel groups, all of whom oppose the government, and they're fighting each other, strangely precipitated by the fact that the United Nations and African Union has now planned peace talks.

I don't have anything that dramatic as far as a performance goes. I've never participated in a show that ended in a fight in my memory.

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.