Donnie Quotes

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

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs. ~ Donnie Fritts

When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too. ~ Donnie Yen

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

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

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work. ~ Jolene Purdy

It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes. ~ Sharyn McCrumb

I've always been in a rebel. ~ Donnie Yen

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras. ~ Donnie Yen

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

A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor. ~ Donnie Burns

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself. ~ Donnie Yen

For as much as many NKOTB fans have been caught off guard by how much this has all meant, so too have some of the guys. Donnie says, "It was a surprise to me how fulfilling it was. It was a surprise to me how emotional it was, how rewarding it was. And quite frankly, how wrapped up in the fans I am. I'm not caught up in the hype. I don't need it. I don't need some fulfillment. I can live without it. But I don't want to. I love making people smile. I love sharing myself. I love the feeling of making people happy. I love the fact that, for whatever reason, I've been put in a position to change people's lives in a simple way. I'm not healing diseases. But I can make someone happy, even for a short time. ~ Nikki Van Noy

A good leader brins the lady partner dance level to a superior level. ~ Donnie Burns

The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth. ~ Donnie Yen

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

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

In his 1973 "literary investigation," The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn exposed the practices of the Soviet penal system: "If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings, that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal (the 'secret brand'); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums. ~ Donnie Eichar

Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads. ~ Michael Lewis

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action. ~ Donnie Yen

To all the staff members that take care of us every single day, From Donnie Strack, to Joe Sharpe, Tony Katz, Dave Bliss, Josh Longstaff, Will, Wilson, St, Mark, Dwight, I could down the line, All you guys have made me a better player. I wish I had a Sharpie, So I could write all your names on here 'Cause you had a hand on this. You made me believe in myself. You made me a better person, A better player. Your words of encouragement, Your love, Your positivity, Got me through. And I thank you guys. ~ Kevin Durant

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

You look at John Travolta in 'Pulp Fiction', you look at Donnie Wahlberg in 'The Sixth Sense.' People have liens against them in crazy ways and the audience is always forgiving - if you prove it. ~ Seth Green

I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression. ~ Donnie Yen

I've always had control of what I played on the air. I have always had very open ears. ~ Donnie Simpson

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin ~ Donnie McClurkin

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

What then is worship? Here's the definition I came up with: worship is the inner attitude of a redeemed heart that is reaching toward God in love, awe, trust and gratitude. ~ Donnie Brannen

They watched as the Shaw brothers played tug of war with a crocodile over what Travis would guess was a nine-point buck. The buck was still kicking, too, but that didn't stop the brothers or the croc.
"I'm sensing the crazy gene, hoss," Donnie mumbled.
"Ya think? ~ Shelly Laurenston

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

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti. ~ Mike Newell

Let's go, Donnie," I said, looking out the window at the damaged vehicle. "You just got out of the car and started shooting! That doesn't seem a little weird to you?" Albert shouted at me from less than a foot away. "Well, after they tried to blow a hole in my face there wasn't much time for diplomacy. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't yell." "They shot at you first?" Albert asked. "You ~ Wayne Lemmons

When red wine has you nailed to the sofa and Glee is on TV,that would be a good time for a jet engine to crash through your ceiling alla Donnie Darko. ~ M.P. Thorp

Home.
I look around and I feel it with every fiber of my being.
I am home. ~ R. Otic

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act. ~ Donnie Yen

Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off - they want to see a love story. But Ip Man is a family man, so the women see this and go: 'I want my husband to be like this man. He'll be a scholar, he'll be fighting, he'll care for the family.' So we had a bigger audience. ~ Donnie Yen

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind. ~ Donnie Yen

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art. ~ Donnie Yen

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films. ~ Donnie Yen

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

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

Some of the kids I knew were whoring, but I wouldn't at first. I was sure I could find a job. But the days went on and I had no money. This kid, Donnie, convinced me sucking cock was a pretty simple way to make fifty bucks. So one night I did it. ~ Lauren Baker

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol. ~ Donnie Yen

It is time we Postulate that a Black Hole is Some kind of Womb. ~ Donnie Harold Harris

This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that Cellar Door is the most beautiful. ~ Donnie Darko

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

Nobody comes out of their mother's womb doing cucarachas. ~ Donnie Burns

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country. ~ Donnie Yen

Donald Trump's mother, who said, Donnie! Stop playing Monopoly and get in that barber's chair! Never got a dinner! ~ Red Buttons

Eventually they [Sarunas Marciulionis and Don Nelson] got a call from a representative of the Grateful Dead, whose members had been inspired by Lithuania's struggle for independence. Nelson and Marciulionis showed up at the address they were given in San Francisco, which was a small, nondescript garage. 'I thought we were the victim of a practical joke until we opened the door and there was a state-of-the-art recording studio' says Nelson.

'I still remember the Dead were trying out Beatles covers, doing stuff like "Here Comes the Sun" and "Hey Jude"... but they were just kind of working through things and sounding kind of nasally and, well, maybe there was a little pot going on. So Sarunas pulls me aside and says 'Donnie, no way these guys are famous. They're terrible.' '. ~ Jack McCallum

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

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

I guess some of us are just born with Tragedy in our blood ~ Richard Kelly

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm. ~ Donnie Yen

We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell. ~ Gale Sayers

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that. ~ Donnie Yen

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

It's not an issue. Everyone's focused on us trying to get a victory. That's where the focus lies ... We're trying to win a game. Who cares about that (other stuff). If we'd played 'em two years ago when it happened, maybe it would be different. ~ Donnie Edwards

I went to visit a friend of mine, a writer name Troy Seal, a songwriting fool. He's had a ton of hits. He said, "I've got a thing I'm stuck on." I can hear the wind a blowin' - he already had that. You and me lord, we had it all. He only had that first verse. For some reason he was stuck. But that's how that came about. ~ Donnie Fritts

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes. ~ Donnie Yen

The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for. ~ Donnie Burns

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about. ~ Donnie Yen

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

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

We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations. ~ Donnie McClurkin

He hated crowds, never liked punk. He couldn't handle the nakedness of the rage -his own so sophisticated and finely tuned. He could never see the similarity between himself and Donnie Draino screaming into a mic. ~ Janet Fitch

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men' ... 'Little Miss Sunshine' ... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that? ~ Beth Grant

You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law. ~ Manny Montana

As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new. ~ Donnie Yen

The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids' dances. They were called "lead outs" for kids in high school. We played wherever we could - in the down time when you weren't recording, people had to make money. ~ Donnie Fritts

The only modern narrative that handles the conundrum semi-successfully is Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko, where schizophrenic heartthrob Jake Gyllenhaal uses a portal to move back in time twelve days, thereby allowing himself to die in an accident he had previously avoided. By removing himself from the equation, he never meets his new girlfriend, which keeps her from dying in a car accident that was his fault. ~ Chuck Klosterman

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time. ~ Donnie Yen

Who expects trouble gets trouble. ~ Donnie Burns

You got to understand, Arthur Alexander was there with us, and some of his crew. It was in the '50s in Alabama. It was before even the civil rights stuff even started. You can imagine the hatred, although we didn't have it as bad as other parts of the country, I must say. ~ Donnie Fritts

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one. ~ Donnie Yen

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan. ~ Donnie Yen

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to. ~ Donnie Iris

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts. ~ Donnie Yen

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character. ~ Donnie Yen

As long as you have those brilliant songs, it didn't matter how bad you played, or how bad he sang on 'em sometimes. It was one of those magical things that really worked, and I don't think could ever happen again. ~ Donnie Fritts

When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart. ~ Donnie Yen

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special. ~ Kevin Richardson

I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow. ~ Donnie Yen

I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. ~ Tears For Fears

I'm a fan of good horror movies. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

I like being a leader in real life. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

We're all proud of you, Donnie. Your mother and me, Katie - " "Right," I snorted. "She said I'm dumber than her bladder-challenged dog. ~ Gordon Korman

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few. ~ Donnie Yen

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

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. ~ Donnie Wahlberg

I can go and do it now, but I can never go an undo it later. ~ Donnie Harold Harris

While our life remains more chaotic than not, we continue to land on our blistered feet, drag each other out of the quicksand, beg for forgiveness as we wander out of the doghouse, and dig for the humor beneath our grief. So our family, four-pawed members included, continues to bound forward celebrating our canine connection and sharing hope with all who need healing. ~ Donnie Kanter Winokur

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