Donnie Wahlberg's Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm a fan of good horror movies.

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.

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

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.

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

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

What's important is self-appreciation.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.