Mark Wahlberg Quotes

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Real men change diapers!

Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.

It is the duty of every parent, citizens, yours and mine to strengthen among boys the sense of respect towards women.

The truth is that when a man has a child, and it's a girl, and he doesn't change as a man, he's not much of a man.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

I would never do a sexist script.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

All women like to look up to their men.

I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man is, the grander he is, the more he thinks of mother, wife and daughter.

Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all?