Top 80 Mark Wahlberg Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.”

— Mark Wahlberg

52. “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

53. “Justin Bieber is like the white Tupac. Compared to a lot of people.”

— Mark Wahlberg

54. “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

55. “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

56. “I’ve always been into working out and eating healthy. That’s just who I am.”

— Mark Wahlberg

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

60. “I don’t enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.”

— Mark Wahlberg

61. “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

62. “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

63. “I’ve always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren’t quite the same thing.”

— Mark Wahlberg

64. “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

65. “OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.”

— Mark Wahlberg

66. “That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It’s such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me.”

— Mark Wahlberg

67. “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

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

71. “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

72. “I’m the father of two boys and two girls, so I’m more an emotional wreck than a mushball.”

— Mark Wahlberg

73. “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

74. “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

75. “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

76. “A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.”

— Mark Wahlberg

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “The world is very different today than it was in 1968.”

— Mark Wahlberg

82. “I love movies that are challenging to me both physically and emotionally and that I have to take a lot of time leading up to it to get into that headspace and live in that headspace throughout the course of the production.”

— Mark Wahlberg

83. “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

84. “As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.”

— Mark Wahlberg

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “I like to do projects I feel some connection to.”

— Mark Wahlberg

89. “I love roles where I am required to prepare physically. And it’s fun putting on weight and eating.”

— Mark Wahlberg