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All Quotes by author - Mark Ruffalo
" Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard. "
Balance
Media
Culture
" 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. "
Loved
May
Acting
" A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one. "
People
Living
Lot
" Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it. "
Going
Keep Going
Lose
" I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself. "
Myself
Actor
Became
" I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called 'Mirror Mirror.' I got killed in 'em all - and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video. "
Time
Movies
Character
" 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. "
Me
Forest
Brother
" I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. "
Teacher
Old
Acting
" 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. "
Ocean
Beach
Beautiful
" I like to disappear in the parts I play. "
Disappear
Play
Parts
" 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. "
Me
Beautiful
Sad
" 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. "
Kid
Like
More
" I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent. "
Remember
Looking
Innocent
" 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. "
You
Respect
Think
" 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. "
Think
Character
Lost
" It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame. "
Out
Fossil
Fuel
" I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium. "
Perception
Me
You
" 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. "
Rest
Think
Family
" My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. "
Acting
Grave
Foot
" My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers. "
Brother
Mom
Sisters
" People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life. "
People
Time
Say
" The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix? "
Open
You
Storm
" 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. "
Talent
Great
Collaboration
" The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors. "
True
Hard
Mirrors
" 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. "
Dreams
Your Dreams
Happy
" What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him. "
Weak
Afraid
Him
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