Top 80 Mark Ruffalo Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “That’s my secret Cap: I’m always angry.”

— Mark Ruffalo

2. “Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody’s going to buy their way out of its effects.”

— Mark Ruffalo

3. “Love conquers all – love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.”

— Mark Ruffalo

4. “You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.”

— Mark Ruffalo

5. “Also, stick around. Don’t lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.”

— Mark Ruffalo

6. “I became an actor so I didn’t have to be myself.”

— Mark Ruffalo

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7. “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

8. “I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we’re not segregated based on wealth or standing. It’s very cool.”

— Mark Ruffalo

9. “Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It’s the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.”

— Mark Ruffalo

10. “People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.”

— Mark Ruffalo

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

— Mark Ruffalo

12. “I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I’m even drastic.”

— Mark Ruffalo

13. “I became really aware that when you’re making a movie, you’re making it three times. You’re making it when you’re writing it. You’re making it when you’re shooting it. And then you’re remaking it again when you’re editing it.”

— Mark Ruffalo

14. “Even if my movies weren’t big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.”

— Mark Ruffalo

15. “I always like having kid energy around. I think it’s good for a movie, even when you’re doing dramatic stuff.”

— Mark Ruffalo

16. “The problem to me is violence. It’s not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.”

— Mark Ruffalo

17. “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.”

— Mark Ruffalo

18. “My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.”

— Mark Ruffalo

19. “People are like, ‘How does Julianne Moore look naked?’ I don’t know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn’t look at her.”

— Mark Ruffalo

20. “As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don’t want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.”

— Mark Ruffalo

21. “Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.”

— Mark Ruffalo

22. “It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.”

— Mark Ruffalo

23. “My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.”

— Mark Ruffalo

24. “I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn’t go swimming.”

— Mark Ruffalo

25. “I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.”

— Mark Ruffalo

26. “We’re clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will of the people. The only thing that’s keeping us back is the fossil fuel industry’s hold on our political system. That’s what we need to change.”

— Mark Ruffalo

27. “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.”

— Mark Ruffalo

28. “People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It’s very alienating and sometimes reality is very threatening to this magical way of thinking. On the other hand, if it is a politician or leader that chooses for whatever reason to remain.”

— Mark Ruffalo

29. “Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.”

— Mark Ruffalo

30. “I didn’t like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.”

— Mark Ruffalo

31. “Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.”

— Mark Ruffalo

32. “It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.”

— Mark Ruffalo

33. “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

34. “I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.”

— Mark Ruffalo

35. “We are turning our grief into winnable actions.”

— Mark Ruffalo

36. “My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.”

— Mark Ruffalo

37. “My dad sent me a text saying, ‘You know who you should play? Columbo. That’s your Academy Award.’”

— Mark Ruffalo

38. “As an actor, I started using dreams more, which is not mystical or anything like that. I just found that I’ve been using that as a tool to give me another point of view towards the work. It’s often surprising but really helpful.”

— Mark Ruffalo

39. “I don’t know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there’s a lot of great people out there who people aren’t happy with.”

— Mark Ruffalo

40. “Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.”

— Mark Ruffalo

41. “There’s a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing – it’s more that we’re chosen for them.”

— Mark Ruffalo

42. “When you’re trying to do character work that’s different from what people expect from you, you’re sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don’t know how it’s playing all the time.”

— Mark Ruffalo

43. “Graduates, I’m asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You’re the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.”

— Mark Ruffalo

44. “The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.”

— Mark Ruffalo

45. “It is a fact that many of the wars and conflicts happening all over the world are aggravated or fought strictly for geopolitical fossil fuel energy interests, and many of the world’s most dangerous regimes are funded by fossil fuel dollars.”

— Mark Ruffalo

46. “I’m very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.”

— Mark Ruffalo

47. “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

48. “By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.”

— Mark Ruffalo

49. “Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.”

— Mark Ruffalo

50. “I know what it’s like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it’s gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.”

— Mark Ruffalo