Mark Ruffalo Quotes - Page 4

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

I think people ought to realize that if you're doing investigative reporting, you're putting something on your newspaper or on your website that no one can get anywhere else, and theoretically at least, that should make people subscribe.

Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.

Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles.

The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.