Quotes By Mark Ruffalo

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.

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

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.

I come from a traditional theater background.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

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

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 like to disappear in the parts I play.

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.

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

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.

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.