(on his activism) “I was taught by the great Stella Adler, who came out of Yiddish theatre, that artists were actually — you had a responsibility as an artist to reflect the culture that you’re in and to give back to that culture in some way. And to be politically savvy; to understand what’s going on; and, for a great part, to speak for the people who can’t speak for themselves. Fortunately, my voice happens to travel a little bit farther than some others’.”

Mark Ruffalo at Real Time with Bill Maher, June 22