Mark Ruffalo Quotes
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It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.
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I don't like to go to the gym very much if I can help it.
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As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.
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I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.
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Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.
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The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.
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With social media, you have this new kind of way to communicate with people that's very immediate, sometimes alarmingly so, sometimes painfully so. If you could just hold some objectivity, a very direct, unfiltered, raw reflection of the way something is landing in the culture without any spin, or filtration, or anything, it's very raw.
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I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.
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But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.
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You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.
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It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.
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My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.
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I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
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My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.
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We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
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I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
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I like to disappear in the parts I play.
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I've been having a lot of fun with the Hulk motion-capture stuff, actually. The only distinction that I hold is that I am the only actor to ever play Banner and the Hulk.
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I didn't apply to any colleges - I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents would be like, 'Mark, where're you going to college?' and I'd just lie 'cause I felt it was unrealistic to be an actor.
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I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.
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I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.
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A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.
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Sometimes, as an actor, you're so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you're really lucky, a few times in your life it'll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
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I come from a traditional theater background.