My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'
Mark RuffaloClimate 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.
Mark RuffaloMy first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.
Mark RuffaloAnd 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.
Mark RuffaloI try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.
Mark RuffaloThere 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.
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