86 Quotes by Donnie Wahlberg

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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