Mark Wahlberg Quotes

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

After kids, the desire to improve as an actor remains, but time becomes hugely important. I want to do good work and do it well but then be at home. I love hanging out with my children, seeing how they behave, and stealing ideas off them. You can't do that if you're in a hotel, on a plane, or a film set. It's not real life.

It was nice to be home for a change. Nice to be with my husband. Nice to be with the kids. But it's also nice to be touring again.

I'm not shooting every day of the week, which allows me to fly home to be with my kids for the weekends. That's how I keep it moving.

People come into work and actually go home to their families. They want to go there and explore and have a good time, but they also want to go home, which is the best kind of working environment. You go in and do your job, and then you go home and enjoy your life.

I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time. It's an amazing thing that we get to do what we get to do, but you definitely are away from the family more than you'd like to be.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything personally, you want to kill everyone, you're depressed and angry, and then in the end you feel excited when it actually works. But executive producing, you can go home at the end of the day.

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.

I'm a family guy. I want to be home with my family, want to spend as much time with my family as I can.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.