Mark Ruffalo Quotes

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

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 s*x and very embracing about violence and I don’t know why that is.

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 s*x.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.