Mark Ruffalo Quotes

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

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

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

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.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

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

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

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

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

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 enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

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.

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

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

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

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

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

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

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

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

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

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

Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.