Mark Ruffalo Quotes
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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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Small aim is a crime.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I got to play with my older brother in high school and college, and I played with my younger brother in high school and college, so I kind of get to do everything, so it was really pretty sweet.
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If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we saw an airplane in a 3 Musketeers movie.
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Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.
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I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.
