Donnie Wahlberg

“I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.”

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

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

“Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.”

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

“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.”

“When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What's important is self-appreciation.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”