Quotes By Mark Ruffalo

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.

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 disappear in the parts I play.

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

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.

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.

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

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

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.

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

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 do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

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.

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.

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.

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