Mark Ruffalo quotes

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself. (Mark Ruffalo)
I live a bourgeois life.
Mark Ruffalo
The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
Mark Ruffalo
I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
Mark Ruffalo
People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.
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I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
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I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.
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I like to disappear in the parts I play.
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I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.
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My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
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Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career. (Mark Ruffalo)
The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
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Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.
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Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
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I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
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Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
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For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
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Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.
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I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
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But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
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But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it. (Mark Ruffalo)
We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.
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And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.
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Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
Mark Ruffalo
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
Mark Ruffalo