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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With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

Mark Ruffalo

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.

Mark Ruffalo

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Mark Ruffalo

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

Mark Ruffalo

I live a bourgeois life.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

Mark Ruffalo

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

Mark Ruffalo

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

Mark Ruffalo

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

Mark Ruffalo

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.

Mark Ruffalo

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

Mark Ruffalo

I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a ...

Mark Ruffalo

Author Bio

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