Mark Ruffalo’s film “Now You See Me 2” is set to hit theaters tomorrow. For tribute, here’s the best quotes from the Ruffalo about acting, life, and art. 

“Usually, the first night before I start working on a picture, I can’t sleep. If it’s a particularly difficult scene, I have a hard time sleeping.”

“My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.”

“I think we’ve all been kind of… everyone’s been hurt, everyone’s felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you’re pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.”

“The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you’re really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.”

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.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

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

It’s a difficult undertaking. I’ve been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who’ve gone deeply out of communication.

I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.

The problem to me is violence. It’s not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

I don’t like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it’s your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.