Quotes By Mark Ruffalo

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 didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

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

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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