Ruffalo's Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

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#7. '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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

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

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

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

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#28. It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.

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#29. No great undertaking ever looks like it's winnable. That only comes later and only if you are lucky and are willing to fight and have a group of folks around you that are willing to do the same thing, too.

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#30. The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.

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#31. My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

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#32. That's what I love about music ... all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

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#33. My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.

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#34. Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

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#35. People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very threatening to this magical way of thinking. On the other hand, if it is a politician or leader that chooses for whatever reason to remain

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#36. I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

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#37. I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

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#38. 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.

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#39. The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do ... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

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

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#41. It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

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#42. It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

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#43. Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

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#44. 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.

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

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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

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

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

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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. I come from a traditional theater background.

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

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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

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

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

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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. Tom McCarthy said to me, 'Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man.'

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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

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

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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

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

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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. 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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