Mark Ruffalo Quotes
'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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.
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Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.
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There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.
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I wasn't a great athlete.
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I wanted to be so many different things in the beginning - I wanted to be a rocker, I wanted to be a great songwriter, I wanted to be a great melodic singer.
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Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
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We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.
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'What Doesn't Kill You' is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.
