Mark Wahlberg Net Worth

Mark Wahlberg's Quotes

• 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.
• [on his delight for starring in Walt Disney's Invincible (2006)] It's a movie my kids can see - my nieces and nephews. I haven't had that. None of my nieces and nephews have seen Boogie Nights (1997), thank God! I haven't made too many PG movies.
• [His reaction to his Oscar-nomination for The Departed (2006)] Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.
• Marty and I were constantly in this struggle. I had problems with Marty. He was "I'm Martin Scorsese... da-dee-da." He was pushing me in different ways. But it wasn't just Marty. The whole time I was in the character so I was mad at everybody. It was Leo, Matt and Jack. Fuck Jack too. We were able to laugh about it afterwards and we have a great relationship now and we're going to do other stuff in the future.
• 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. Imitators don't last, and I'd like to last.

Interesting Facts about Mark Wahlberg

1. Younger brother of Arthur Wahlberg, Donnie Wahlberg and Robert Wahlberg.
2. Named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [May 1992]
3. His older siblings are: Arthur Wahlberg, James Wahlberg, Debbie Wahlberg, Michelle Wahlberg, Paul Wahlberg, Tracey Wahlberg, Robert Wahlberg and Donnie Wahlberg. Robert, Donnie and Mark are from their mother's third marriage with Donald Wahlberg. Half-siblings from his father's side of the family are Scott Wahlberg, Buddy Wahlberg and Donna Wahlberg.
4. Was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean's Eleven (2001) but dropped out. The role went to Matt Damon.
5. Bought a $5 million mansion in Beverly Hills, California and moved his mother there. [December 2001]
6. His music group, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, debuted on The Arsenio Hall Show (1989) in the late 1980s.
7. He said in one of the featurettes in The Italian Job (2003) DVD that he thought about doing the movie because it was going to be his third remake in a row (if you don't count Rock Star (2001)) after The Truth About Charlie (2002) and Planet of the Apes (2001).
8. His father was of half Swedish and half Irish descent, and his mother's ancestry is 11/16ths Irish, one eighth French-Canadian, one eighth English, and one sixteenth Scottish. Mark's paternal grandfather, Axel Simon Wahlberg, was the son of Swedish immigrants, Axel Gustaf Wahlberg and Ida Albertina Nordstrom.
9. Narrated the documentary Juvies (2004) along with The Italian Job (2003) co-star Yasiin Bey (Mos Def supplied poetry).
10. His older sister Debbie passed away on September 2, 2003, leaving behind a teenage son. She died on the same day that Mark's first child, Ella Rae Wahlberg, was born.
11. Has a tattoo of Bob Marley on his left shoulder.
12. Is very close to his mother Alma McPeck.
13. Older brother, Donnie Wahlberg, was a member of the boy group New Kids on the Block.
14. Has a summer home in Wrentham, Massachusetts.
15. Turned down the role of Hero in the horror film Feast (2005), which went to Eric Dane.
16. Turned down the lead role of Jake Roenick in Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), which went to Ethan Hawke.
17. Martin Scorsese directed Wahlberg to his very first Academy Award nomination as Sgt. Sean Dignam in The Departed (2006). Wahlberg has said that it's one of the roles he is most proud of.
18. Friends with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jimmy Butler, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, and Will Ferrell.
19. Considers The Truth About Charlie (2002) his worst film.
20. He and some friends were actually booked to fly on one of the planes that crashed in to the twin towers on September 11, 2001. Originally planning on flying from Boston to Los Angeles but at the last minute they decided to charter a plane to Toronto, Canada for a film festival and then from there to Los Angeles. A near brush with death that he still dreams about today. "We certainly would have tried to do something to fight. I've had probably over 50 dreams about it."