Mark Ruffalo Quotes

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

Mark Ruffalo

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• I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Play
  • Young
  • Expectations

• Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Way
  • Working

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • You
  • Diversity
  • Unity

• I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Fans

• The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Reality
  • Aging

• I think 'Heroine' was Kareena Kapoor's best ever role of her career.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Career
  • Best

• I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Fast

• Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

  

  John Mayer
  • Crazy

• The language of communication will always need to be renewed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Communication

• I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.

  

  Janis Karpinski

• Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Country

• It's not good to put in a magazine what I weigh because it's too little. People freak out when they hear what I weigh. They think, 'Oh, you're too skinny.'

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Good

• Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Funny
  • Heaven
  • Intelligent

• My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Work
  • Science
  • Leadership

• I draw inspiration from my life, and, honestly, a lot of my religious beliefs have stemmed into my music.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Religious

• I actually like Taylor Swift. I admire what she's been able to do on some levels.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • She

• I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Business

• Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • People
  • Career

• Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Trying
  • America
  • Today

• With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • People
  • Great

• I think the most important thing about what musicians do is the music. You can be as big an arsehole as you want but if you're not making good music, you won't get away with it.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Musicians
  • Get Away
  • Good Music

• When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

  

  Mark Ruffalo