Mark Ruffalo Quotes

#1. Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

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#2. I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

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#3. Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

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#4. The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.

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#5. On 'The Avengers,' I've been working closely with Mark Ruffalo.

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#6. We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

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#7. I didn't apply to any colleges - I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents would be like, 'Mark, where're you going to college?' and I'd just lie 'cause I felt it was unrealistic to be an actor.

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#8. 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.

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#9. I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.

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#10. I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

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#11. I come from a traditional theater background.

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#12. The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

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#13. Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

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

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#15. 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.

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

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#19. I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

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#20. You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

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

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#25. Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.

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#26. I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

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

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#28. That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people

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#29. Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

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#30. 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.

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#31. People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.

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#32. I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.

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#33. I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

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#34. 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.

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#35. For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.

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#36. My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

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

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#38. I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

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#39. 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.

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#40. Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

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#41. 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.

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#42. You can tell a lot about a person by what's on their playlist.

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#43. I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

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#44. That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

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#45. 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.

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#46. I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

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#47. Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.

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#48. Tom McCarthy said to me, 'Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man.'

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#49. I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

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#50. I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.

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#51. We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will of the people. The only thing that's keeping us back is the fossil fuel industry's hold on our political system. That's what we need to change.

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#52. It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

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#53. Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

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#54. I've been having a lot of fun with the Hulk motion-capture stuff, actually. The only distinction that I hold is that I am the only actor to ever play Banner and the Hulk.

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

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#56. Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

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#57. What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

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#58. I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

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#59. As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.

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#60. No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

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

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#62. When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

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#63. If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

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#64. My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

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#65. 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.

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#66. 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.

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#67. I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

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#68. My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.

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#69. As an actor, I started using dreams more, which is not mystical or anything like that. I just found that I've been using that as a tool to give me another point of view towards the work. It's often surprising but really helpful.

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#70. 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.

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#71. The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

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#72. 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.

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#73. A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

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#74. When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

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#75. 'What Doesn't Kill You' is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.

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#76. There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

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#77. 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.

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#78. Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

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#79. It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

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

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#81. I think people ought to realize that if you're doing investigative reporting, you're putting something on your newspaper or on your website that no one can get anywhere else, and theoretically at least, that should make people subscribe.

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

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#83. Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

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

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#85. I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

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#86. There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

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#87. I don't like to go to the gym very much if I can help it.

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#88. The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

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#89. I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.

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#90. The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.

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#91. I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

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#92. It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.

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#93. I live a bourgeois life.

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#94. My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.

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#95. Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.

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

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#97. I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.

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#98. There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

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#99. By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

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#100. Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.

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