Mark Ruffalo Quotes - Page 3

My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

I come from a traditional theater background.

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.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

I come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov and then you're doing Arthur Miller in a season and no-one bats an eye.

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

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.

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.

I live a bourgeois life.

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.