Top 80 Mark Ruffalo Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I come from a traditional theater background.”

— Mark Ruffalo

52. “I’d never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.”

— Mark Ruffalo

53. “Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you’re in your glory – where you’re really cracking – and moments where you’re not.”

— Mark Ruffalo

54. “I live a bourgeois life.”

— Mark Ruffalo

55. “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.”

— Mark Ruffalo

56. “Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.”

— Mark Ruffalo

57. “Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.”

— Mark Ruffalo

58. “I still feel like I’m trying to make it. It’s hard to shed the struggling actor thing.”

— Mark Ruffalo

59. “It’s a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I’m an actor than if I was a gardener.”

— Mark Ruffalo

60. “I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.”

— Mark Ruffalo

61. “That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.”

— Mark Ruffalo

62. “There’s a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.”

— Mark Ruffalo

63. “I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.”

— Mark Ruffalo

64. “When you’re on the road, you sort of go crazy and being away from your family you get stir-crazy and lonely, so I try to keep myself involved as much as possible.”

— Mark Ruffalo

65. “I haven’t had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it’s a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that’s a gift. That’s rare.”

— Mark Ruffalo

66. “I’ve just been more interested in doing film right now and I don’t want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.”

— Mark Ruffalo

67. “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.”

— Mark Ruffalo

68. “Some of my favorite scenes aren’t in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It’s not to your pleasure.”

— Mark Ruffalo

69. “Literally, I think I’ve quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.”

— Mark Ruffalo

70. “Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.”

— Mark Ruffalo

71. “I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.”

— Mark Ruffalo

72. “I don’t want to feel like I’m stuck doing one-stock performances.”

— Mark Ruffalo

73. “I think people ought to realize that if you’re doing investigative reporting, you’re putting something on your newspaper or on your website that no one can get anywhere else, and theoretically at least, that should make people subscribe.”

— Mark Ruffalo

74. “I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.”

— Mark Ruffalo

75. “Tom McCarthy said to me, ‘Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That’s the real feat, man.’”

— Mark Ruffalo

76. “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

77. “When people sit across from people – gay, straight, whatever – and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren’t the demons we’ve expected them to be.”

— Mark Ruffalo

78. “I didn’t really have any interest in producing anything.”

— Mark Ruffalo

79. “I like to disappear in the parts I play.”

— Mark Ruffalo

80. “A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.”

— Mark Ruffalo

81. “I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.”

— Mark Ruffalo

82. “My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.”

— Mark Ruffalo

83. “The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can’t move to renewable energy now. It’s a lie.”

— Mark Ruffalo

84. “Artists have always been the front line; that’s part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.”

— Mark Ruffalo

85. “I like to think the movies that I’ve picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.”

— Mark Ruffalo

86. “I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.”

— Mark Ruffalo

87. “Yeah, there’s a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.”

— Mark Ruffalo