Quotes from 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.

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

My real baby is renewable energy. I feel like whoever starts to crack this nut is going to have a pretty clear shot at the White House. It's a $2 trillion business that America's being left out of.

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.

The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.

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.

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

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

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.

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.

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.

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

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

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

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

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'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.

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.

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.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

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.