Quotes By Mark Ruffalo

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

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.

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.

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 like to disappear in the parts I play.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I live a bourgeois life.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.