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

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

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.

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

I've never Googled myself on the Internet.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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