Mark Ruffalo
There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.Collection: Home
My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.Collection: Daughter
Activists must be admired for the sacrifices they are willing to make for those things they hold dear. I would say those kinds of ways of looking at life enrich the value of life, and that is a good thing.Collection: Sacrifice
Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.Collection: Independent
I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.Collection: Creative
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.Collection: Character
I come from the theatre where there are no boundaries to the style you're doing; you're doing Molière, then you're doing Chekhov and then you're doing Arthur Miller in a season and no-one bats an eye.Collection: Eye
A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.Collection: Liars
The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.Collection: Kids
I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.Collection: Trying
I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.Collection: Giving
Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."Collection: Real
It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.Collection: Pride
There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.Collection: Roles
We are turning our grief into winnable actions.Collection: Grief
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.Collection: Beautiful
Ask people who are close to the natural world: farmers, people who work the land or in some way use the land for their livelihoods. They will tell you what they are seeing isn't so good. They will tell you the changes they have seen in the past twenty years are remarkable in one way or another and unlike anything they had seen before that.Collection: Past
We only gain collectively by acting now. We gain by one day not having to pay a thing for fuel. We gain by having cleaner air, water, and food so that we are healthier and our health care costs come down. We gain by deflating the global fossil fuel markets that drive much of the conflict around the world.Collection: Air
That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.Collection: War
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice.Collection: Daughter
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.Collection: Actors
The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making that transition is nothing more than misinformation, a lack of knowledge by most people of what is available, and an unwillingness on the part of many of our politicians for either ideological slavishness or something more self-serving, like major campaign contributions from the oil and gas corporations or from utilities who enjoy the monopoly they have on our energy systems.Collection: Technology
There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.Collection: Long Walks
Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.Collection: Climate
Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading.Collection: Issues
You reminded me of a quote that my acting teacher Stella Adler wrote in her book ['The Art of Acting'], which I asked her to sign: "The young actor feels some greatness inside themselves that they want to give back to the world." That resonated with me, but I didn't really understand what she was talking about until much later, in the way you surmised that my struggle to become an actor was from being this kind of introverted young boy.Collection: Teacher
People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very threatening to this magical way of thinking. On the other hand, if it is a politician or leader that chooses for whatever reason to remain in this state of magical thinking, then they should be called out for it strongly and repeatedly.Collection: Lonely
The abundance that is offered to us by leaving behind the fossil fuel paradigm is very promising for the world and the people of the world. We will have cleaner air, water, and food; we will have more resources to share with our people. There will be more economic freedom because people will be able to harvest their own energy.Collection: Air
Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.Collection: Wind
It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.Collection: Home
Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.Collection: Climate
My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'Collection: Dad
People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.Collection: People
By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.Collection: Energy
A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.Collection: Hurt
Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.Collection: Character
I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.Collection: Swimming