Mark Ruffalo Quotes
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Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
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When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.
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I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
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For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
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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.
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I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium.
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I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.
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I've never Googled myself on the Internet.
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Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
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The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
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I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.
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Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.
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I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.
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For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.
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I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.
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What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.
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They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.
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Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.
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The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?
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My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.
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The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
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The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.
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I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.
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As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.