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My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
'What Doesn't Kill You' is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
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.
Quote by -Mark Ruffalo
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
Quote by -Patti Smith
I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.
Quote by -Laura Dern
Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I don't care, but I don't get bitter about anything as long as I can work and do the things I love. And it would be a beautiful world if those things I love and that mean something could remain as they are.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
Quote by -Laura Dern
It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
Quote by -Laura Dern
Whether a movie part comes to me or I seek it out, there's always this journey to darkness through light, or vice versa; that element has been in almost everything I've done.
Quote by -Laura Dern
It sounds like a cliché, but mother is really one of my closest friends, and so's my dad. He and I weren't very close when I was younger, but now we're best friends.
Quote by -Laura Dern
What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.
Quote by -Laura Dern
When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
Quote by -Laura Dern
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about
Quote by -Laura Dern
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.
Quote by -Laura Dern
As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I still have a lot to learn. I just have two cats, and when I'm in a bad mood - you know, it would be very easy to throw a cat across a room.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
Quote by -Laura Dern
I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference... It has to move people.
Quote by -Laura Dern
Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
Quote by -Laura Dern
You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
Quote by -Laura Dern
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
Quote by -Laura Dern
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Quote by -Laura Dern
It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
Quote by -Laura Dern
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
Quote by -Laura Dern