110+ Mark Wahlberg Quotes (Dramatic, Comedic And Versatile)

Mark Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, restaurateur, and former rapper. He is best known for his roles in films such as Boogie Nights, The Departed, and Ted. He has also produced several television shows, including Entourage and Boardwalk Empire.

Top 10 Mark Wahlberg Quotes

1. You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.
2. Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.
3. For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.
4. Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
5. 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.
6. I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
7. When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.
8. Andy Samberg is the only person I've ever seen do an impression of me, and I didn't think it was that accurate. I'd like to see somebody else impersonate me, especially if they can do a good job.
9. There's nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.
10. Hopefully, we're still living in the land of second chances.

Mark Wahlberg Short Quotes

• This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.
• I've always been into working out and eating healthy. That's just who I am.
• Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.
• I just focus on my work with inner-city kids, and in my community, and on my philanthropic work.
• There will be new and exciting filmmakers to come and movies that will be great successes.
• Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.
• I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.
• I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.
• Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.
• I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

Mark Wahlberg Famous Quotes And Sayings

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. — Mark Wahlberg

I don't want to let my guard down and feel too comfortable. If you become complacent, you start feeling entitled. I'm ready to go dig ditches if I have to. Whatever I gotta do to provide for my family. Whatever I gotta do to make sure that I do the best possible job at whatever wonderful opportunities I've been handed. — Mark Wahlberg

I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort. — Mark Wahlberg

I don't think God's going to judge me based on my film work - although I hope he has a sense of humour and I hope he's a fan of movies because I've done some things that may be questionable in his eyes as an actor! — Mark Wahlberg

And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground. — Mark Wahlberg

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing. — Mark Wahlberg

It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel. — Mark Wahlberg

I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway. — Mark Wahlberg

The important thing is that ever since I realized all the wrongs that I had done, I have been trying to correct them for the past 27 years. — Mark Wahlberg

The best part of a great movie is a great villain and I usually have a tendency to root for the bad guy. — Mark Wahlberg

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want. — Mark Wahlberg

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person. — Mark Wahlberg

I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle. — Mark Wahlberg

Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me. — Mark Wahlberg

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter. — Mark Wahlberg

Clooney is just a pretty boy, man, and that's it, OK? I carried him on my back long enough. I'm on my own. — Mark Wahlberg

I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand." — Mark Wahlberg

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen. — Mark Wahlberg

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

He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it. — Mark Wahlberg

You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best. — Mark Wahlberg

[I want to be remembered] as a great servant of God who tried to give back as much as possible, and as a great father and husband. — Mark Wahlberg

I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself. — Mark Wahlberg

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

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows? — Mark Wahlberg

I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I feel it doesn't matter that I'm a white dude doin' black music. — Mark Wahlberg

I'm fortunate that my job gives me the motivation to be as fit as possible. I wound up in a profession that requires physical and mental preparation, so I get to prepare like an athlete for everything I do. I'm living the dream, man. — Mark Wahlberg

I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made. — Mark Wahlberg

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

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

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be. — Mark Wahlberg

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem. — Mark Wahlberg

If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day. — Mark Wahlberg

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much. — Mark Wahlberg

I'm at the halfway point of shooting . — Mark Wahlberg

I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother. — Mark Wahlberg

As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me. — Mark Wahlberg

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

You need to have new people, young people that are super excited and super eager to get in there anytime we're doing something dangerous action-wise. It's pretty annoying but I get it, I understand the enthusiasm, I just give it a little time. — Mark Wahlberg

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

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church. — Mark Wahlberg

I always try to bring a little bit of my own personality to the character, or some sort of personal connection makes it a little bit more of an organic portrayal and the audience can kind of maybe believe it a little bit more. But I always look for something to kind of connect with and identify with, or bring something of myself to the table. — Mark Wahlberg

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

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

[Cade Yeager] is like a man on the run which is fun, it's a bit of an adventure story. — Mark Wahlberg

I love the man that [Peter Berg] is, the father that he is, and the leader. We push each other in a way. It's competitive. — Mark Wahlberg

I stopped smoking weed for my kids. One day, we were driving and you could smell it from somewhere. My daughter asked what the smell was so I told her it was a skunk. Then she said, 'Sometimes Daddy smells like that!' to me and my wife. So I knew I had to quit. — Mark Wahlberg

Having more success allows you more freedom to take more risks and do things. — Mark Wahlberg

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

I like to do projects I feel some connection to. — Mark Wahlberg

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

I'm only doing whatever the next role calls for. — Mark Wahlberg

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

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

Justin Bieber is like the white Tupac. Compared to a lot of people. — Mark Wahlberg

There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there and if you need to have a serious conversation you just gotta wait for the right time to do it. — Mark Wahlberg

I have more money now than I know what to do with. — Mark Wahlberg

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

Normally, eat any our caterer makes these wonderful chocolate chip cookies for lunch. It was my one treat of the day, after getting beat up on the mountain while shooting Lone Survivor. I'd eat a couple cookies and then take a 15-minute nap on the top of the mountain. — Mark Wahlberg

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills. — Mark Wahlberg

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

I love roles where I am required to prepare physically. And it's fun putting on weight and eating. — Mark Wahlberg

But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others. — Mark Wahlberg

For a lot of explosions and stuff like that [in Transformers] you're harnessed to something getting swung in the air or dragged onto something or thrown onto something. — Mark Wahlberg

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible. — Mark Wahlberg

If I'm not training then, gosh, anything: donuts... Kentucky Fried Chicken 20-piece hot wings... corned beef hash and eggs... But because I'm training, I'm eating very healthily: almond milk... Ezekiel bread... chicken... fish... I'm on a strict diet. — Mark Wahlberg

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

I want to give my kids the world, but I also want them to appreciate everything, to succeed, to be good people, to enjoy life. This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything. — Mark Wahlberg

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience. — Mark Wahlberg

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing. — Mark Wahlberg

In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself. — Mark Wahlberg

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt. — Mark Wahlberg

Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff. — Mark Wahlberg

The first movie I can remember ever seeing was Hard Times with Charles Bronson and James Coburn. My dad also introduced me to the likes of Jimmy Cagney... John Garfield... Robert Ryan... Steve McQueen... James Caan... Those are my fondest memories. — Mark Wahlberg

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me]. — Mark Wahlberg

If I am awarded a pardon for my philanthropic work, great; if not, I will continue to be involved in the community and to work just as hard, if not harder, to prevent kids from going down the same road and making the same mistakes. — Mark Wahlberg

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

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life. — Mark Wahlberg

I do understand that going out and promoting the movie is a big responsibility, and part of the reason they give me the job in the first place. — Mark Wahlberg

It's all about love and how we are all connected. — Mark Wahlberg

Will Ferrell and I are teaming up again on a film called Daddy's Home. In the movie I play a Special-Ops soldier who has just discovered that Will Ferrell's character is married to my ex-wife and is my children's stepfather. So, I have to come home and try to win them back and take him out. — Mark Wahlberg

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

Success for me is just having a job and have the studio feel confident that I can go out there and make a movie that people will enjoy. — Mark Wahlberg

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

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed. — Mark Wahlberg

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. — Mark Wahlberg

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

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom. — Mark 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. — Mark Wahlberg

I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned. — Mark Wahlberg

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

Life Lessons by Mark Wahlberg

1. Mark Wahlberg is an example of someone who has achieved success through hard work and dedication. He has shown that with a strong work ethic and a positive attitude, anything is possible.
2. His career has been a testament to the importance of having a clear vision and taking consistent action towards achieving your goals.
3. He has also demonstrated the power of resilience and not giving up in the face of adversity.