Meet Mark Ruffalo

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Before he was The Hulk, Mark Ruffalo's path to fame saw him survive health scares and personal tragedies to become the star — and activist — he is today.

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00:00One thing that I've learned in life is that nothing worth a good goddamn is easy

00:06Life can be hard, you know, what also learned is that there's a silver lining in these struggles

00:13I

00:28Was undiagnosed with dyslexia ADHD and depression

00:43I

00:48Had a dream that I had a brain tumor and

00:53I it was like no other dream that I'd ever had

01:05It's not a great time to say I knew it but

01:14You know, it's it'll be the great mystery of my life

01:29My friends have a term getting ruffalo, so I got a brain tumor

01:32I think I'm gonna die, but it was like the best of the worst. I didn't die, but I learned a lot about myself

01:44The one thing I can do is be of service to put a spotlight to the people whose voice you must be hearing and you're not

01:58These are all human beings just like everyone out there watching and their livelihood their families or sacred places or

02:06Cemeteries are all being desecrated and attacked

02:14It becomes kind of a moral issue about about who you are, you know and how you view the women in your life

02:26They tell us that

02:28Drilling is safe that what's poison isn't poisonous that what's radioactive isn't threatening and that it's okay for us to be able to

02:36light our tap water on fire

02:38It

02:41Isn't just the Academy Awards it's the entire American system is rife with a kind of

02:48white privileged racism

02:54He's a total egotistical fool

03:08You

03:13We do get a lot of you why does anyone hear from you you're an actor yeah, but you'll let me sell you perfume

03:20Maybe it's like selling like decency to people instead of things if we're really gonna change stuff

03:24Then people got to get uncomfortable. You know you got to make yourself uncomfortable, too

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