Quotes By Mark Ruffalo

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

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.

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.

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

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

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.

I live a bourgeois life.

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

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.

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

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 sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.