265 Quotes by Mark Ruffalo

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

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.

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