Mark Wahlberg Quotes

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

I wasn't star struck, but you know you're in the game when you're eye-to-eye with Nicki Minaj. It means you made it.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

I really want to be a rock star.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.

As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

When I was little kid, I used to want to be a rock star.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

A lot of rappers are stars, but people like Drake and Lil Wayne, those are superstars.

My goal is to be the most ignorant, richest rapper I could be.

I've been around so long that I've seen rappers make it and plummet.

I never wanted to be like: 'Oh, just because I'm a singer I can be in films now.'

We have this obsession with celebrity, where people can go on shows and makes millions of pounds from being completely talentless - Jade Goody, all that type of people - and it really gets to me. I'm not interested, I'm a musician. It's not about being famous and being a celeb.

If you're in the music to move to Hollywood and be in 'People' magazine dating an actress or dating some Hollywood celebrity, are you into it for that side of it? Are you in it to be a millionaire? Or are you in it because you love it and you like playing music and you like going on tour?

Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

The new celebrity thing is going to take some time to get used to because I really am not used to that!

I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now.

Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.

You don't become a rock star for no reason.

Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize -- while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!