On temporarily quitting acting in 2009: “I’d had it with L.A., and I really had it with the business side of acting, the machinery of it all. You’re an artist, but then all of a sudden you’re a product at the same time, and there’s this company that’s sprung up around you. I got depressed. I was losing my love for it. So I said, ‘I’m done.’ I fired everybody and moved my family out here (Callicoon, NY). I had to make a radical move. The Kids Are All Right was my swan song. I didn’t know what I was doing next.”
On struggling to make it as an actor: “It was brutal. The years are stripping away, but when you talking to anyone from home, you’re saying something like ‘Well, I’m just working on my craft right now,’ when the truth is that I can’t get a f*****g job because no one will hire me. It was humiliating.”
On deciding to continue acting: What brought Ruffalo back this latest time was sitting in the audience at Sundance, where The Kids Are All Right made its debut in 2010, and, after the first peal of laughter, “watching everyone’s jaded, supercool Hollywood identities melt into the communal experience of filmmaking and storytelling. It reminded me: I’m an actor, and my whole life has been geared towards being an actor.”
On acting in The Avengers, a computer-generated style movie: “It’s the absolute perfect marriage because it relies on your imagination, your ability to project outside of yourself, to be the watcher and the watched. A stage actor has to be able to do that, because you’re telling the story with your body as much as your face and voice."
On not training to be The Incredible Hulk: “No, no, no. Look, I’m eating guacamole and potato chips….You think Tom Cruise does this?”
Jacket by A.P.C. T-shirt by Diesel. Jeans by J Brand. Boots from Stock Vintage.
T-shirt by Woolrich John Rich & Bros. Jeans by J Brand. Bracelet from What Goes Around Comes Around.
Shirt by Burberry Brit. Jeans by J Brand. Vintage bracelet and belt from What Goes Around Comes Around.
Jacket by A.P.C. T-shirt by Diesel. Jeans by J Brand.
T-shirt by Woolrich John Rich & Bros. Jeans by J Brand
Sweater by Opening Ceremony. Jeans by J Brand. Vintage bracelet and belt from What Goes Around Comes Around
Photos by Matthias Vriens-McGrath, courtesy of Details magazine
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