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Mark Ruffalo
American
Actor
About the author
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,
American
Actor
#Relationships
#Heart
#Family
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,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Love
#Kids
#Will
#Present
#Cause
The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Value
Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Heart
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,
American
Actor
#Now
#Kids
#World
#Violence
#Post
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,
American
Actor
#Want
#Relationships
#Work
#Saying
#Being
#Truth
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,
American
Actor
#Love
#Career
#Pretty
#Decisions
Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Kids
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,
American
Actor
#Chance
#Will
#World
#Act
#Theater
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,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Love
#Chance
#May
For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Life
#Reason
I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Energy
I come from a traditional theater background.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Theater
I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Interest
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Public
#Old
#Night
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Divorce
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,
American
Actor
#Imagination
#Idea
#School
I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Want
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,
American
Actor
#Time
#Life
#Ocean
#Growing up
#Beach
I live a bourgeois life.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Life
I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Work
#Fish
I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Movies
I like to disappear in the parts I play.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#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.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Time
#Life
#Career
#Mother
#Wind
I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Actor
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Belief
#Grave
Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
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,
American
Actor
#Right
#Respect
#Marriage
#Care
#Garden
I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Trying
#Actor
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 bit.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Character
#Love
#Hurt
#Play
#Loss
I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Want
I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Time
#Being
I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Girls
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,
American
Actor
#Want
#Right
#Now
#Film
#Family
#Play
#Months
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Years
#Communication
Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Acting
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,
American
Actor
#Belief
#Water
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Time
#Life
#People
#Funny
#Moments
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Being
#Actors
#Spontaneity
The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#People
#Hurt
#Violence
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,
American
Actor
#Thought
This country consumes more pornography than any other country in the world.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#World
#Country
#Pornography
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,
American
Actor
#Eating
#World
#Pretty
#Violence
#Sex
#Extreme
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,
American
Actor
#Experience
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,
American
Actor
#Talent
#Collaboration
I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.
Mark Ruffalo,
American
Actor
#Marriage
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,
American
Actor
#Culture
#Violence
#Sex