Donnie Wahlberg Quotes

A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It’s much different than being a regular. You come in and it’s a lot of unfamiliar faces and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.

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

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

In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

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.

It’s different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It’s much different than being a regular. You come in, and it’s a lot of unfamiliar faces, and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.

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

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.

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

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

What’s important is self-appreciation.

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’m very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I’ve done in my career.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

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

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

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

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.

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.