Mark Wahlberg Quotes

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

I don't want to take up a project for the sake of it. I want to work and follow my passion, and not anything else.

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

After 'Secretary,' I was wanting very badly to find something to make that I really cared about.

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

I do things that I actually love and understand.

I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.

My motivation is not to try to inspire, but rather to do things that inspire me and hopefully that will spread to others.

I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.

I'm involved with projects that strike up a passion with me, that stir up completion inside of me. People come at me and go, 'My job makes me feel alive.' OK, well, good for you. My job doesn't make me feel 'alive,' my job makes me feel alive!

Don't give your power away to anybody. If you find something to do that you truly love, you'll be successful.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

I just want to produce and create projects that I'm passionate about and I love.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.