Mark Ruffalo quotes

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

#Heart #Littles #Easy

"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

#Thinking #Dysfunction #Drug

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

#Actors

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

#People #Alive #Lessons

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

#Daughter #Mother #Children

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

#Kids #Wife #Support

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Beautiful #Beach #Growing Up

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Roles #Actors #Ends

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

#Dream #Views #Giving

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

#Character #Journey #Different

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

#Character #People #Trying

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

#Answers #Want #Actors

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

#Nervous #Feels

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

#Lonely #Crazy #Trying

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

#Hurt #Children #Home

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

#Teacher #Art #Struggle

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

#Brain #Acting #May

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

#Struggle #Heart #Interesting

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Hurt #People #Violence

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

#Heart #Sticks #Keep Going

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

#Garden #Thinking #Care

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

#Hurt #Lost Love #Character

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

#Sex #Warrior #Culture

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

#Daughter #Mother #Country

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

#People #House #Actors

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Boys #Bait #Fish Tanks

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

#Grief #Healing #Action

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Kids #Thinking #Stuff

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

#Struggle #Trying #Actors

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

#Giving #World #Crafts

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

#Drinking #Bars

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

#Interest

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

#Divorce #Two #People

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

#Want #Stuck #Feels

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

#Play #Disappear

I live a bourgeois life.
-- 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

#Play #Going Away #Broadway

Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Hollywood #Tendencies #Yeah

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

#Thinking #Worthwhile #Relevant

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

#Ready #Ran

I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Girl #Nowhere To Go #Riding

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

#Thinking #Umpires #Acting

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

#Funny Things #People #Serious

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

#Playlists #Persons

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

#Reason #Whole Life

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

#People #Naked #Looks

I come from a traditional theater background.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Surfing #Theater #Backgrounds

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

#Kids #Thinking #Wipe

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

#Falling In Love #Careers #Decision

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

#Long #Want #Telling The Truth

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

#Mother #Wind #Careers

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

#Teacher #Reading #Night

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

#Sex #Sleep #Breathing

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

#Beautiful #Pearls #Banality

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

#Fighting #Self #Keys

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
-- Mark Ruffalo

#Feet #Acting #Bananas