Quotes By Mark Ruffalo

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

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.

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.

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

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.

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.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.