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We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

Mark Ruffalo

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Mark Ruffalo
Age: 56
Born: 1967
Born: November 22
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Kenosha
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Mark Alan Ruffalo
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