Mark Ruffalo Quotes

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

I just like being a regular person.

I'm just a normal guy and blue-collar historian, and people keep tuning in.

In Camden, it's just the atmosphere that gets me. It's simple. It's nice. It's real. And it's the people, too. I like to interact with them because they are normal and I am normal. People probably don't expect an Arsenal player to come to Camden Lock and, basically, be a normal guy.

I am a very simple man. I love normality, and I love normal people. I love to eat normal food. It's how I grew up.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. A lot of rough stuff as well. What there is, too, is an awful lot of expressiveness and intelligence and originality down there. And a lot of thwarted intelligence.

Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it's because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

I had a normal life; we didn't meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.

I think once you meet me, you realize I'm not necessarily some soft yoga guy. I've been on the picket line. I've been in the union halls. I'll drink a Miller Lite with you.

If you live only a movie-star life, you know only movie-star things. I needed to live a regular life with normal people around.

I'm not so interested in what movie a celebrity is promoting or what television show might be premiering. I'm more interested in, 'Does Channing Tatum know how to do laundry?' I guess the more simple, personal sides of people.

I want to remain a common man, want to spend time with my family.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

I'm just a regular dude.

People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.

I'm quite shy and I absolutely love my job - if you'd call it a job - and I like everything that goes along with it, but I think away from that I'm probably no more interesting or special than anyone else, and so I really like just doing normal stuff, as I'm sure most people in our team do.

I want girls to be able to relate to me, and I think that's why a lot of commercial clients like me: because I'm just like everyone else.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

I ain't flash. I'm just plain old Shaun, the same as I was when I grew up in South London.