I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

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.

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

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.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

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.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

You value the thing you are fighting for, but then you learn to value the time it takes to do it and the time you have off. Both of which are precious.

When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.

Also, stick around. Don't lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

No great undertaking ever looks like it's winnable. That only comes later and only if you are lucky and are willing to fight and have a group of folks around you that are willing to do the same thing, too.

Every piece of geopolitical strife that's happening in the world today is revolved around energy, either trying to grab resources or people using resources to fund radical groups.

I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.

My mom was a hairstylist, but she quit doing that to raise the kids - there were four of us. There was no money.

It's a mature thing to understand that your pictures of a lifetime together with someone were... well, the reality is not what we're taught.

Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.

I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium.

As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.

I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.

I normally don't have that much confidence. I usually am trying to talk to directors out of giving me a job.

I've been having a lot of fun with the Hulk motion-capture stuff, actually. The only distinction that I hold is that I am the only actor to ever play Banner and the Hulk.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.

The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.

You really can have your dreams and at the same time have a family. But it has to be a really deliberate practice.

I've never Googled myself on the Internet.

I don't like to go to the gym very much if I can help it.

For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. He was just so beloved there.

My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

'What Doesn't Kill You' is a really great movie that was little seen but, I think, is one of my personal favorites.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

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.