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. – 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 kills spontaneity. – Mark Ruffalo
I didn’t apply to any colleges – I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents would be like, ‘Mark, where’re you going to college?’ and I’d just lie ’cause I felt it was unrealistic to be an actor. – Mark Ruffalo
I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom’s family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn’t a big forest, but it was enough. When you’re a kid, it feels gigantic. – 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
I don’t have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That’s really what interests me anyway. – Mark Ruffalo
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. – 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
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 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
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
A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one. – Mark Ruffalo
It’s been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow. – Mark Ruffalo
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
I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She’s like, ‘You have to see this movie.’ It was ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ That’s where it started. – 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
My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers. – Mark Ruffalo
I like to think the movies that I’ve picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant. – Mark Ruffalo
The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix? – Mark Ruffalo
It seems like they conflate Bruce and the Hulk. It’s usually, ‘Hulk!’ as I’m walking across the street. But sometimes it’s ‘Banner!’ If you go on my Twitter feed, you’ll see it’s mostly Hulk. I think it was pretty spectacular what we were able to accomplish with CGI with ‘The Hulk,’ and I can’t take full credit for that. – 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
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. – 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
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
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
