Mark Ruffalo Quotes

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

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

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

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'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.

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

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

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.

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.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

I come from a traditional theater background.

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.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

I live a bourgeois life.

We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

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

The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

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.

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.

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.