Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, businessman and former model and rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, as frontman with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, releasing the albums Music for the People and You Gotta Believe. Wahlberg later transitioned to acting, appearing in films such as the drama Boogie Nights and the satirical war comedy-drama Three Kings during the 1990s. In the 2000s, he starred in the biographical disaster...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth5 June 1971
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
I like to do projects I feel some connection to.
I love roles where I am required to prepare physically. And it's fun putting on weight and eating.
I was excited about getting my first tattoo, but I was only twelve, so I had to hide it from my mother.
I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
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.
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.
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.
As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.
I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
Women don't get the credit they deserve.
The world is very different today than it was in 1968.
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.
A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen.
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.