Donnie Wahlberg Quotations

In the end I'm the only one who knows me

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are.

If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.

There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.

I like being a leader in real life.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them, but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

I didn't get arrested to show off my wild character. People say it's a gimmick for all five of us to be different. That's ridiculous.

My whole high school experience was acting in plays and writing and directing and producing plays during the day and doing music at night.

I wasn't exactly uncomfortable when I did my first comedy. I was just very aware of the risks; if you do a comedy that sucks, and you suck in it, then you won't get a chance to do it again.

If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.

To me it is harder to play a real person, but when you do it and you feel good about it and the person feels good about it, I think that's doubly rewarding. So the challenge is greater, the risk is greater, but the reward is greater as well.

I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot

With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me

I'm a fan of good horror movies.

What's important is self-appreciation

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

It's different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a regular. You come in, and it's a lot of unfamiliar faces, and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.

When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.

Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.

When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

Every job in Hollywood is a risk. You don't know, when you sign a contract, if something is going to pop, you don't know whether this or that network is going to support your show. You just show up and do the best work you can do, gravitate towards the best material, you know, and try to make the right choices. And the rest of it is a roll of the dice.

I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.

If I wanted to connect like I do now, I'd have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It's fun, but it's also a very powerful thing.

A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a regular. You come in and it's a lot of unfamiliar faces and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.