Quotes from Donnie Wahlberg

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.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

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

It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.

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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I like being a leader in real life.

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.

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'm a fan of good horror movies.

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

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.

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

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.