265 Quotes by Mark Ruffalo

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

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.

I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.

I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.

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.

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.

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.

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.