Mark Alan Ruffalo was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to hairdresser and stylist Marie Rose and development painter Frank Lawrence Ruffalo Jr.
He began his performing career in theaters throughout his high school years. Mark found the Orpheus Theatre Company in Los Angeles and directed and performed in various plays.
He made his big-screen debut in 1989 with CBS 'Summer Playhouse' and played prominent roles in additional films. His role in the Marvel film series as 'The Hulk' earned him a lot of fame, affection, and support from Marvel fans everywhere.
Apart from the infamous hulk, he is known for his other movies like 'This Is Our Youth', 'You Can Count On Me', 'Just like Heaven', '13 Going on 30', 'Zodiac', 'Shutter Island', and many more.
After finishing production on the movie 'The Last Castle' in 2001, Mark Ruffalo was afflicted with an acoustic neuroma, a kind of brain tumor. Although the tumor was confirmed to be benign, the procedure to remove it resulted in partial face paralysis and impaired his hearing for about 10 months.
Mark Ruffalo's road to becoming one of Hollywood's top performers has been truly inspirational for so many and is well worth learning about.
Famous Mark Ruffalo Quotes
Mark Ruffalo is an American actor, filmmaker, and environmental activist best known for his depiction of The Hulk in The Avengers series and its sequel. Throughout his career, Ruffalo has been nominated for Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tony awards, making him part of a limited group of people nominated for all four prizes.
Here is a collection of the most notable Mark Ruffalo quotes, most of which will strike a chord with you.
"The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them."
"I'm like a Depression-era person as far as acting goes. It's sort of like, grab it while you can and make the most of what's in front of you. The first 'Avengers' opened up a host of things that I've been struggling to get made for a long period of time."
"Whatever your mind tells you is a limit is a lie; limitations are lies we tell ourselves."
"You organize around an issue. You find people with like minds, you get the science and you offer solutions."
"There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody."
"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."
"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."
"I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing."
“It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.”
"A creative act is throwing yourself out into the unknown. The more you do that, the more you grow as a person and artist."
"The poor people in the world are suffering the most from this system [of market-driven energy use]. It’s violent to go into a community and poison them, even if that violence is in slow motion."
"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood."
"The world is leaving behind fossil fuels. It will be a beautiful world when we won't send kids overseas to fight wars for energy."
"I’d say that 99 percent of the time I have a good time, because I love acting. I also keep my standards for myself high but my expectations for other people low. And I’ve learned something from every director I’ve worked with, even the ones who were struggling."
"The people leading this movement are not celebrities. They’re people who are passionate, people who care. Everything takes time. The more you stay at it and surround yourself with people of like minds, you can begin to effect change."
"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."
"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."
"I guess I need to take myself out of it [laughs]. It would probably be Scarlett Johansson who deserves it. It'd be the Black Widow. She’s smart, tough, she's a feminist, she knows how to control her anger. I'd have to give it to her."
- When asked which Avengers character should run for president.
Inspiring Mark Ruffalo Quotes
Ruffalo was motivated to go into an acting career from an early age, but he had to overcome a lot of hardship before achieving his ambition. When things started going downhill financially, his father grabbed his belongings and left behind four kids and a wife.
Mark's brother Scott was assassinated at his Beverly Hills condominium in December 2008.
These Mark Ruffalo quotes will inspire you in life and motivate you toward doing the right thing.
(Mark Ruffalo is an American actor best known for playing Bruce Banner/the Hulk in a franchise of Marvel superhero films.)
"Something like that happening or any kind of tragedy just opens the world in a different, you realise human beings’ fallibility."
"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."
"We are turning our grief into winnable actions."
"Where you see change is needing to happen, act up. It's fun. It's enlivening. It creates community. The alternative is an inner deadening. I say, 'Go for life, always.' "
"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."
"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."
"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."
"My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing."
"Those places where you find resistance in yourself, that’s where growth happens. You challenge assumptions you have, assumptions created in your own minds."
" 'What is normal?' really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with."
"And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame."
"I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time."
"I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances."
"Real power comes from relationships you have with yourself. That love spreads to the world around you. That’s where you start, and it grows out from there. You fight for what you love. You’re unbeatable when you have love on your side."
"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."
"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."
Fascinating Mark Ruffalo Quotes
Mark Ruffalo strongly supports various social topics, such as abortion laws and anti-fracking. Mark Ruffalo led the campaign against natural gas extraction in his native state of California in 2016. He has also twice endorsed socialist Bernie Sanders for president.
The following are a few fascinating Mark Ruffalo quotes to provide a glimpse into the actor's life and how amazing a person he is.
"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."
"I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage."
"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."
"We face a world begging for us to re-address many of its systems, and the only way to do that is to make people really uncomfortable—starting with ourselves."
"Change starts with being uncomfortable; then you make others uncomfortable. To do that, you need to challenge belief systems that no longer apply."
"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. People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable."
"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."
"Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is."
"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."
"I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff."
"If you’re fighting for something you love and acting from love—even if it creates righteous anger—you're inoculated against the toxicity of anger. Love is what sustains you through your discomfort. It’s what carries you through your darkest times."
"That's what I love about music, all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls."
"I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic."
"You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist."
"I didn't really have any interest in producing anything."
Interesting Mark Ruffalo Quotes
Mark Ruffalo is renowned for being involved in a variety of acting-related hobbies in addition to performing. Therefore, this should come as little surprise that he is not only an actor but also a director and producer.
If these interesting Mark Ruffalo quotes don't convince you of how funny and intriguing he is, we're confident that this list of fascinating Mark Ruffalo quotes will.
"I come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov and then you're doing Arthur Miller in a season and no-one bats an eye."
"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."
"I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job."
"The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing."
"I was nearly 30 before I could pay my rent by acting, before I could get my car out of impound and keep it out."
"But I needed time to develop my technique, and I needed to be exposed to different places and people, to see what it is like to not be a white person of privilege. I needed a little bit of the gritty."
"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."
"There is an intelligence that is the master—you can talk to your nerves and say, 'I know you're there, but you're not in control of me.' ”
"For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' "
"I live a bourgeois life. ”
"I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant."
"Actors sell all kinds of stuff. Why not sell something that’s actually good for us all? Something we care about?"
"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."
"Through acting I’ve gotten to meet people I would never have come in contact with. It’s been a wonderful education and continues to be."
"I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy."
"A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one."
"Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks."
"I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty."
"I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale."
"I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations."
