Quotes by Mark Ruffalo

About Mark Ruffalo:

Mark Alan Ruffalo is an American actor, director, humanitarian and producer. He has portrayed the Marvel Comics character Dr. Bruce Banner / the Hulk in The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Other notable films in which he has starred or co-starred are You Can Count on Me (2000), Collateral (2004), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Just Like Heaven (2005), Zodiac (2007), Shutter Island (2010), Now You See Me (2013), and Begin Again (2013). For his roles in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and Foxcatcher (2014), he received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. He also won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie and received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film nominations for The Normal Heart, which he also produced.
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Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

Mark Ruffalo

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

Mark Ruffalo

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

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

Mark Ruffalo

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

Mark Ruffalo

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

Mark Ruffalo

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.

Mark Ruffalo

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

Mark Ruffalo

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Mark Ruffalo

I come from a traditional theater background.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

Mark Ruffalo

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

Mark Ruffalo

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

Mark Ruffalo

I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

Mark Ruffalo

Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

Mark Ruffalo

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 ...

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

Author Bio

  • NameMark Ruffalo
  • DescriptionAmerican actor
  • BornNovember 22, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Film Director; Film Producer; Screenwriter; Writer