Mark Ruffalo Quotes
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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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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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I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.
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I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
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When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me there. Kids pick up on things if you're interested and inquisitive. I was seeing things that were not in line with what I'd been taught about Jesus. It didn't jive with me.
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I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
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If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!
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I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
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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.
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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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I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
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I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you'd better do what you want while you have a chance.
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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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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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It seems like they conflate Bruce and the Hulk. It's usually, 'Hulk!' as I'm walking across the street. But sometimes it's 'Banner!' If you go on my Twitter feed, you'll see it's mostly Hulk. I think it was pretty spectacular what we were able to accomplish with CGI with 'The Hulk,' and I can't take full credit for that.
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It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.
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I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.
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Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.
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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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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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I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
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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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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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The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.