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

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

As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days.
Mark Ruffalo

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

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

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

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

I come from a traditional theater background.
Mark Ruffalo

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

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

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

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.
Mark Ruffalo

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

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

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

I live a bourgeois life.
Mark Ruffalo

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

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

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

I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
Mark Ruffalo