Donnie Wahlberg Quotes

I'm a fan of good horror movies.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like being a leader in real life.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.