Mark Ruffalo Quotes
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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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
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You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
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When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
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All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.
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We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.
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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.
