Quotes By Mark Ruffalo

I live a bourgeois life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.

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

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

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

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

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

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.