Mark Ruffalo Quotes (67 Quotes)

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

Who I am is a conglomeration of probably all the things that have happened to me, so somewhere along the way that works its way into the work.

You get sick and s- goes wrong and you're bonked - you don't know where you're going to end up, how it's gonna turn out, ... That sort of thing changes you, the way you live your life. It teaches you to take less and less for granted.

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.

You know, fifty percent of the marriages in America end in divorce, and eighty percent of married couples, one or the other has had adultery.

I'm sacrificing part of my anonymity which I enjoy to have more options as far as what I can get off the ground. It's a give and take sort of thing.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

I come from a traditional theater background.

It's not my favorite genre, generally, ... But I want to do it. I wanted to try my hand at it, because I was hearing around town, people saying that I couldn't do it. 'Mark Ruffalo can't do comedy. Mark Ruffalo can't be a romantic lead.' And so I was like, 'Those are fighting words, my friend.'

I mean, I think I admire my wife the most out of anyone. She's really smart, in a practical way that I don't have. We balance each other.

I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

I can't just 'Jim Carrey' something like that, ... I don't have that kind of genius. So I went and hired a clown and we did isolating exercises, where one part of your body does one thing and another part does something else. And then, at 2 in the morning, after working on it for hours, I was lying down, and I thought, 'Oh my God, I've got it now'

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.

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

But the frustration of not being seen, not having anyone acknowledge this great talent that I was sure was in me, was really frustrating.

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world.

Sometimes I catch her looking at me a bit more amorously than usual. It certainly is the type of thing that doesn't hurt a love life. She keeps me in check when 13-year-old girls come running up to me.

In the past 10 years since I've been doing independents and occasionally a studio movie, studio movies are starting to look more like independents and independents are starting to look more like studio movies. Both of them see that they can make money. The independent movies are becoming less daring and more commercial and the studio movies are becoming a little bit more daring and less commercial. So it's kinda a weird times.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

I just thought that, as much as we could switch gears, the more fun it would be. Really grind into the low, intense love stuff, and death and those kinds of big themes, then just go way out there on physical comedylike stuff. And the way to do that is just be incredibly honest with each scene.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

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.

I live a bourgeois life.

Right now, most actors are personalities and acting is not what they were talking about when I was being taught by these old masters.

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.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

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.

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.

I've been able to hide behind the character in Eternal Sunshine . People don't recognize me from Collateral . But this feels more exposed.

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.

I like doing the action and the romantic comedy stuff,

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.