Mark Wahlberg Quotes
It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.
Quotes to Explore
-
My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
-
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
-
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
-
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
-
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
-
Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
-
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
-
I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
-
Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
-
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
-
Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
-
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
-
When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
-
I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
-
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
-
The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
-
I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.
-
I think, unfortunately, this is going to go down in history as one of the great sporting gaffes of all time.
-
Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back.I just can't seem to get you off my mind.Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back.You're the one I love and I think about you all the time.
-
You can divide my life into two.
-
We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.
-
It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.
