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Mark Ruffalo

"I come from a traditional theater background."

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A.E. Samaan

"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."

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A.E. Samaan

"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."

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A.E. Samaan

"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"With my background, I came out of the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

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A.E. Samaan

"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."

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Mark Ruffalo
"Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood."

Hollywood

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Mark Ruffalo
"I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed."

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Mark Ruffalo
"They would never let me be a crossing guard when I was a little kid. It would come up, I'd always raise my hand, I would never get picked . They thought I was too wild, but I knew I was responsible enough, if I was given that task."

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Mark Ruffalo
"And 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."

Life

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Mark Ruffalo
"I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself."

Actor

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Mark Ruffalo
"I live a bourgeois life."

Life

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Mark Ruffalo
"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."

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

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Mark Ruffalo
"I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with."

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Mark Ruffalo
"Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks."

Acting

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