Mark Ruffalo
We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All we need is for you to join the rest of the world to bring about a cleaner, more stable, and peaceful future.Collection: Peaceful
No great undertaking ever looks like it's winnable. That only comes later and only if you are lucky and are willing to fight and have a group of folks around you that are willing to do the same thing, too.Collection: Fighting
Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.Collection: Love
I guess the biggest lesson would be to have faith in that little part of yourself that knows what it's doing, knows what it wants, knows what you should be doing, even when all the clamour around you is telling you something else. That's the part that you want to keep alive and that's the part that people want to see when they see you on the screen.Collection: People
Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.Collection: Drinking
I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.Collection: Loving Life
There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.Collection: Levels
When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.Collection: Love You
For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.Collection: Reason
Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.Collection: Going Away
No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.Collection: Moving
It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.Collection: Fighting
"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.Collection: Thinking
Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.Collection: Believe
It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Gay
You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.Collection: Fighting
You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.Collection: Rainy Day
I am grateful to the fossil fuel industry for bringing us the concentrated carbon that took us through the Industrial Revolution and through the technological revolution and brought us to the gateway of the renewable energy revolution, or what I call the sunlight revolution. But that is where we must part ways. It's the natural order.Collection: Grateful
The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or older folks dealing with heart and lung disease from the pollutions created by the burning of these fossil fuels, may not be reflected in the prices of fossil fuels, but that does not mean we aren't paying a high price for them.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Dream
I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.Collection: Distance
It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.Collection: Air
I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.Collection: Writing
My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.Collection: Cutting
Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.Collection: Responsibility
I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.Collection: Reviews
I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.Collection: Complacent
We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have the will of the people. The only thing that's keeping us back is the fossil fuel industry's hold on our political system. That's what we need to change.Collection: Technology
I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, 'You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.'Collection: Heart
I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.Collection: Nervous
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.Collection: Beautiful
I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Jobs
That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.Collection: Secret
I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.Collection: Acting
Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.Collection: Guy
Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Ebb And Flow
My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Responsibility
Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.Collection: Fighting
I think people ought to realize that if you're doing investigative reporting, you're putting something on your newspaper or on your website that no one can get anywhere else, and theoretically at least, that should make people subscribe.Collection: Thinking
Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.Collection: Destiny
Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles.Collection: Choices
The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Class