Zitat des Tages von Mark Ruffalo:
It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.
I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.
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.
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
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.
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've never Googled myself on the Internet.
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.
I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.
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.
I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.
It's a mature thing to understand that your pictures of a lifetime together with someone were... well, the reality is not what we're taught.
I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
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.
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
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.
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.
I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.
I live a bourgeois life.
When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.
I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.
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.
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.
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.
I like to disappear in the parts I play.
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.
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.
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.
I come from a traditional theater background.
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.
The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
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.
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.