Mark Wahlberg famous quotes

You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Games #Pimp #Conscience

I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Mean #Talking #Guy

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Mistake #Sleep #Night

Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Jobs #Wall #Feel Good

For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Firsts #Protect

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Teenage #School #Years

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Daughter #Mother #Real

I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I feel it doesn't matter that I'm a white dude doin' black music.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Thinking #White #Color

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Mom #Jobs #Important

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Dream #Athlete #Play

And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Girl #Attitude #Father

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Jobs #Father #Actors

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Successful #Feel Good #Effort

I don't think God's going to judge me based on my film work - although I hope he has a sense of humour and I hope he's a fan of movies because I've done some things that may be questionable in his eyes as an actor!
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Eye #Thinking #Judging

I've always looked at my career as an athlete would look at his: I won't play forever. Some don't know when to walk away, but the smart ones do.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Smart #Athlete #Play

I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Children #Dad #Mistake

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Catholic #Important #Aspect

I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both!
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Hate #Fighting #People

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Kids #Appreciate #Giving

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Stories #Talent #Study

I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#People #Friendly #Want

When you go into a starring position and you're carrying a movie, it's important that people like it. So I only do things that I can connect with in some sort of way, or that I can identify with.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#People #Important #Way

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Bills #Actors #Pay

I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do." And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#People #Guy #Trying

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Father #Important #Roles

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Shooting #Enough

I prepare mentally and physically for everything I do. I like having to do both, because you submerge yourself into the character and the world and you live it until it's over.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Character #World

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Brother #Uncles #Husband

I always try to bring a little bit of my own personality to the character, or some sort of personal connection makes it a little bit more of an organic portrayal and the audience can kind of maybe believe it a little bit more. But I always look for something to kind of connect with and identify with, or bring something of myself to the table.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Believe #Character #Personality

I always say one of my favorite things about making movies is finishing on that last day because I get to have my life back and let that go, and hopefully have a real sense of accomplishment at the end of it.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Real #Accomplishment #Lasts

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Jobs #Character #Actors

Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Circumstances #Situation

Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Reading #Writing #Ideas

I approach everything the same. I try to make it as real as possible, whether you gotta make people laugh or make people cry, it's always the same approach for me. But if I start doing pratfalls, somebody please pull the plug on me.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Real #Laughing #People

The best part of a great movie is a great villain and I usually have a tendency to root for the bad guy.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Roots #Guy #Villain

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Character #Play #Persons

If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Sitting #Actors #Wasting Time

Movies have kind of become a tad bit uninspired, in that the big studio movies are spending more money to chase the big money with all these franchises and superhero movies. Some of them have been great, but some of them are a little tiresome.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Superhero #Littles #Kind

Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Light #Guy #Video

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Salt #Grain

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Said

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Good Life #Blessing #Age

I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Who I Am #Work Out #Healthy

I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Dream #Jobs #Motivation

I love roles where I am required to prepare physically. And it's fun putting on weight and eating.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Fun #Weight #Roles

I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Friday #Monday #Eggs

There are guys who want to look good, and there are guys who want to perform at their best. Being fit is about being able to perform at your best, not necessarily just looking your best.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Guy #Want #Able

There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Love Is #Waiting #Flying

I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Dream #Dad #Kids

I've got a pretty wide range of stuff that I'm interested in in life. But producing it gives me a lot more time at home to spend with my family as opposed to being away on location shooting nights for months at a time.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Home #Night #Giving

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Cities #Broken #Green

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Acting #My Family #Complaints

My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take what we build apart; I want to put it on a shelf. My wife is starting to get a little annoyed with the Legos lying around.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Lying #Son #Wife

If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Prayer #Church #Mass

I like to do projects I feel some connection to.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Connections #Projects #Feels

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Drama #Real #Trying

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Being Yourself #People #Trying

OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Land #Worry

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Guy #Desire #Grew

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Today #Different #World

Women don't get the credit they deserve.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Credit #Deserve

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Morning #Thinking #Church

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Father #Succeed #Failing

I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Girl #Father #Boys

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Love Is #Discovery #Directors

I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Character #Play

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Political #Levers #Littles

Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Opportunity #Chance

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.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Thinking #People #The End Of The Day

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#People #Less Is More #Bigs

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Men #Boys #Long

Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Wheels #Looks #Driving

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Environment #Raised

Justin Bieber is like the white Tupac. Compared to a lot of people.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#White #People #Justin

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#People #Complaining

Well, I would love it if they could take all the guns away. Unfortunately, you can’t do that so you hope that good people in the world have them to protect the people who can’t protect themselves,
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Gun #People #World

Immortality... Is that a super power?
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Power #Immortality #Super Power

He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Respect #Nice #Believe

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Sports #Stars #Woods

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Prayer #Way #Helping

Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Sports #Hockey #Play

When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Rapper #Trying #Hotel

You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Smile #Kids #Laughing

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Funny #Missing #Dumb

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Hands #Giving #House

I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#People #Assistants #Faces

I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Real #Stupid #Hustle

I think the most important thing is to always be involved in every aspect of their life. To give them enough trust that they can share things with you. I don't want them to be terrified of me, you know? But I don't want them to think they can do whatever they want and get away with it, either, because they can't.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Dad #Thinking #Giving

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so its not a lie.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Lying #Believe #I Believe

It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Daughter #Sex #Humble

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Men #Thinking #Three

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Inspiring #Children #Needs

I have more money now than I know what to do with.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Money #More Money

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Wanted

I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#People #Healthy #Trying

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#Running #Interesting #Worry

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.
-- Mark Wahlberg

#People #Trying #Acting