A biography for Mark Ruffalohasn’t been written yet.
“When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me there. Kids pick up on things if you're interested and inquisitive. I was seeing things that were not in line with what I'd been taught about Jesus. It didn't jive with me.”
“I come from a traditional theater background.”
“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.”
“I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.”
“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.”
“I live a bourgeois life.”
“I don't like to go to the gym very much if I can help it.”
“I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.”
“I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.”
“My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.”
“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.”
“Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.”
“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.”
“Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.”
“I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.”