Mark Ruffalo Quotes & Sayings

It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts. — 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 abundance that is offered to us by leaving behind the fossil fuel paradigm is very promising for the world and the people of the world. We will have cleaner air, water, and food; we will have more resources to share with our people. There will be more economic freedom because people will be able to harvest their own energy. — Mark Ruffalo

You can tell a lot about a person by what's on their playlist. — 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 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. — Mark Ruffalo

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out. — 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 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

Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is. — Mark Ruffalo

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel. — Mark Ruffalo

We are turning our grief into winnable actions. — Mark Ruffalo

Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American. — Mark Ruffalo

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing. — 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

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. — Mark Ruffalo

My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers. — Mark Ruffalo

As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors. — Mark Ruffalo

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

There is a quote that my acting teacher Stella Adler wrote in her book [The Art of Acting], which I asked her to sign: "The young actor feels some greatness inside themselves that they want to give back to the world." That resonated with me, but I didn't really understand what she was talking about until much later, in the way you surmised that my struggle to become an actor was from being this kind of introverted young boy — Mark Ruffalo

I've been having a lot of fun with the Hulk motion-capture stuff, actually. The only distinction that I hold is that I am the only actor to ever play Banner and the Hulk. — 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

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. — Mark Ruffalo

Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles. — Mark Ruffalo

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time. — Mark Ruffalo

The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them. — 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

I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it. — Mark Ruffalo

Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade. — Mark Ruffalo

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it. — Mark Ruffalo

That's what I love about music ... all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls. — Mark Ruffalo

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

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody. — Mark Ruffalo

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time. — Mark Ruffalo

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming. — Mark Ruffalo

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way. — Mark Ruffalo

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations. — Mark Ruffalo

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people — 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 want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore. — Mark Ruffalo

I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale. — Mark Ruffalo

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. — Mark Ruffalo

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

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do. — Mark Ruffalo

Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential. — Mark Ruffalo

I come from a traditional theater background. — Mark Ruffalo

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat. — Mark Ruffalo

The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art. — Mark Ruffalo

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself. — 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 bit. — Mark Ruffalo

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

I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare. — Mark Ruffalo

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool. — 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 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

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

Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading. — Mark Ruffalo

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not. — Mark Ruffalo

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful. — Mark Ruffalo

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. — 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

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

I guess the biggest lesson would be to have faith in that little part of yourself that knows what it's doing, knows what it wants, knows what you should be doing, even when all the clamour around you is telling you something else. That's the part that you want to keep alive and that's the part that people want to see when they see you on the screen. — Mark Ruffalo

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews. — Mark Ruffalo

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

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them. — 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

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

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure. — Mark Ruffalo

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. — Mark Ruffalo

I've never Googled myself on the Internet. — Mark Ruffalo

People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her. — Mark Ruffalo

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic. — Mark Ruffalo

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener. — Mark Ruffalo

We only gain collectively by acting now. We gain by one day not having to pay a thing for fuel. We gain by having cleaner air, water, and food so that we are healthier and our health care costs come down. We gain by deflating the global fossil fuel markets that drive much of the conflict around the world. — Mark Ruffalo

Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine. — Mark Ruffalo

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive. — Mark Ruffalo

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead. — Mark Ruffalo

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. — 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 didn't really have any interest in producing anything. — Mark Ruffalo

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out. — 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

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk. — Mark Ruffalo

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable. — 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

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 like to disappear in the parts I play. — Mark Ruffalo

When you're on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible. — Mark Ruffalo

Ask people who are close to the natural world: farmers, people who work the land or in some way use the land for their livelihoods. They will tell you what they are seeing isn't so good. They will tell you the changes they have seen in the past twenty years are remarkable in one way or another and unlike anything they had seen before that. — Mark Ruffalo

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me. — Mark Ruffalo

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house. — Mark Ruffalo

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

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward. — Mark Ruffalo

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

My dad sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.' — Mark Ruffalo

My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present. — Mark Ruffalo

It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world's most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars. — Mark Ruffalo