Donnie Wahlberg Quotes
In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.
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
The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.
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.
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.
I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.
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 didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.
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.
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.
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.
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
Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.
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
It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am
It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.
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.
We just constantly worked on second Saw film, it's not an Academy award level film, but we worked as hard we could to make it plausible.
We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you get in touch with who the character is.
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.
I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.
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.
You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as possible.
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.
I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.
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.