Quotes from 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 have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

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

I come from a traditional theater background.

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

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.

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.

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

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

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.

I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.

What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.

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.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.