Top 55 Mark Ruffalo Quotes

I don’t have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That’s really what interests me anyway.

When you‘re a young actor, and you’re really fighting to have your place in the world – for me, anyway – it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.

I come from a traditional theater background.

I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called ‘Mirror Mirror.’ I got killed in ’em all – and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video.

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.

If I’m working in the city, then as soon as I’m home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he’s starting to come into my world now. It’s just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They’re my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.

Every piece of geopolitical strife that’s happening in the world today is revolved around energy, either trying to grab resources or people using resources to fund radical groups.

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.

I live a bourgeois life.

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

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.

It’s imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

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

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

I’d always been close to my brother. Very close.

I don’t like to go to the gym very much if I can help it.

If you’re not yelling at your kids, then you’re not spending enough time with them!

I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I’m working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They’re the best tools for working that I have.

I’d never taken a job purely for money – I felt that would kill me – but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you’d better do what you want while you have a chance.

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

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don’t mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

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

I normally don’t have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.

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.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.

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

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.

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.

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

Whatever we want to think about American business – work hard, tell the truth, have morality – it’s a myth. There’s a lot of graft.

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids – there were four of us. There was no money.

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: ‘I know who I am, and I know who I’m not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.’ You start to face yourself as you truly are.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo’s brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.

I like to think the movies that I’ve picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

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

What makes Hulk afraid? It’s himself. It’s a version of himself that’s weak. It’s a version of himself that’s vulnerable. It’s a child inside of him.

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.

Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn’t really balance the unheard.

The laws of nature tell us there’s a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that’s going to run out. And if we’re smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.

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

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

All of us have got to pay into a certain system, and what we’re saying is it’s 100% American that every American should be able to create, store and sell their own energy as they see fit. Let’s decentralize energy. Let’s democratize energy.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

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.

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.

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

My real baby is renewable energy. I feel like whoever starts to crack this nut is going to have a pretty clear shot at the White House. It’s a $2 trillion business that America’s being left out of.