Quotes By Mark Ruffalo

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I live a bourgeois life.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.