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Mark Ruffalo

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 22, 1967

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.

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We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

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But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

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Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood.

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I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

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I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

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I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.

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Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks.

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And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

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I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

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I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

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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.

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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.

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I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

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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.

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I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.

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I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

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People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.

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They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task.

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

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