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

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

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

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

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

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. — Mark Ruffalo

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do ... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing. — 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

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

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

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant. — Mark Ruffalo

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

Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are. — 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

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

I think people ought to realize that if you're doing investigative reporting, you're putting something on your newspaper or on your website that no one can get anywhere else, and theoretically at least, that should make people subscribe. — Mark Ruffalo

The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making that transition is nothing more than misinformation, a lack of knowledge by most people of what is available, and an unwillingness on the part of many of our politicians for either ideological slavishness or something more self-serving, like major campaign contributions from the oil and gas corporations or from utilities who enjoy the monopoly they have on our energy systems. — 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

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

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

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the "kingdom", so to speak ... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole. — Mark Ruffalo

As an actor, I started using dreams more, which is not mystical or anything like that. I just found that I've been using that as a tool to give me another point of view towards the work. It's often surprising but really helpful. — 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

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

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

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

We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will of the people. The only thing that's keeping us back is the fossil fuel industry's hold on our political system. That's what we need to change. — 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 know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences. — 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

You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of the other ones - it wasn't always the case that you had people the caliber of Jeff Bridges or Robert Downey, so to kind of show up and work with Jeremy Renner or Robert or with Mark Ruffalo, any of them, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, the caliber of people you're acting with, to me, is really fun. From the first day I started doing scenes with Robert, it's been one of the funnest experiences I've ever had. — Clark Gregg

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 became an actor so I didn't have to be myself. — Mark Ruffalo

On 'The Avengers,' I've been working closely with Mark Ruffalo. — Andy Serkis

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood. — 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 woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention. — Mark Ruffalo

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

A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame. — 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

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

The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters. — Clark Gregg

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

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

With social media, you have this new kind of way to communicate with people that's very immediate, sometimes alarmingly so, sometimes painfully so. If you could just hold some objectivity, a very direct, unfiltered, raw reflection of the way something is landing in the culture without any spin, or filtration, or anything, it's very raw. — Mark Ruffalo

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true. — Mark Ruffalo

That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry. — 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 kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work. — Mark Ruffalo

It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food. — Mark Ruffalo

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty. — Mark Ruffalo

There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice. — Mark Ruffalo

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

I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor. — Mark Ruffalo

I am grateful to the fossil fuel industry for bringing us the concentrated carbon that took us through the Industrial Revolution and through the technological revolution and brought us to the gateway of the renewable energy revolution, or what I call the sunlight revolution. But that is where we must part ways. It's the natural order. — Mark Ruffalo

My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice. — 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

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

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

Tom McCarthy said to me, 'Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man.' — Mark Ruffalo