Mark Ruffalo

“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.”

“It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.”

“I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.”

“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.”

“You have to remember that for more than half my life - probably until my children were born - acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.”

“For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“אני רוצה לעשות מערבון. אף אחד כבר לא עושה מערבונים.”

“אנשים אומרים דברים מצחיקים כל הזמן ברגעים ממש רציניים בחיים.”

“אני חושב על הנישואין כגן. אתה צריך לטפל בזה. כבדו אותו תדאגו להאכיל אותו. ודא שכולם מקבלים את הכמות הנכונה של אור השמש.”

“אני אוהב לחשוב שבסרטים שבחרתי יש משהו שכדאי לומר. משהו רלוונטי.”

“אני עושה קריאות בספריה הציבורית. פשוט עשיתי ערב סצנת תועלת למורה הוותיקה שלי למשחק.”

“זו התחייבות קשה. אני נשוי כבר ארבע שנים ואני רואה בסרט זה סיפור אזהרה על אנשים שיצאו עמוק מהתקשורת.”

“הבעיה בעיני היא אלימות. זה לא מגניב להרוג מישהו או לפגוע באנשים.”