Quotes

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."

"People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life."

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

"I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination."

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

"A creative artist is throwing yourself out into the unknown. The more you do that the more you grow as a person and artist."

"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."

"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."

"I like to disappear in the parts I play."

"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."

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

"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."

"Whatever your mind tells you is a limit is a lie; limitations are lies we tell ourselves."

"Those places where you find resistance in yourself, that's where growth happens. You challenge assumptions you have, assumptions created in your own minds."

"Take these tragic things and turn them into something meaningful and worthy of the loss. Make it count."

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