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The actor's new buddy-cop film, The Other Guys, is out now. Mark Wahlberg will now take your questions_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 23, 2015 2:10 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 23, 2015 2:10 PM UTC On Monday’s episode of _The Tonight Show_, Jimmy Fallon recruited _Family Guy_ creator Seth MacFarlane to play a game known as Wheel of Impressions. In this game, each participant must perform several impressions of random celebrities discussing random topics. MacFarlane went first and was required to impersonate Liam Neeson talking about Time Warner Cable. He totally crushes it with a dark, breathy and seriously sinister speech about cable installation. Jimmy Fallon does a pretty good impression of Jerry Seinfeld talking about Uber, but we all know who the real star of the show is. ## Transcript >> Excuse me. You're under arrest. Okay? You have the right to remain silent, anything you do or say can be used, what's the next word? >> As a flotation device. >> As a flotation device. You know what? That's very funny. I have never Miranda- ed anyone before. >> Really? >> Are you guys for real? Am I being Punked? >> Hi. I'm Belinda Luscombe, I'm an editor- at- large at TIME Magazine. We are here to ask ten question to Mr. Mark Wahlberg who is, for those of you who don't know, a music star, a movie star and the man who has done more for abdominal muscles than anybody outside the editor of Men's Health. It's so great to have you here at this live event [ unk ]. >> I appreciate it. >> Our first question is from Andrea Gallan of San Diego, California. She wants to know, would you make a good cop in real life? >> Of course I would, I made a good crook so I would definitely make a good cop, you know, it's a very fine line between the two. >> Could you actually, given your colorful history, could you actually be a cop? Do you know? >> Probably in this day and age I could. I have friends that I grew up with that did a lot of worst things than I did and actually went on to become cops, they just didn't get caught for it. Yes, so I think I could. >> You lead a pretty wild teenage life, you changed and you are a very well- respected actor and producer. What advice do you give your kids so that they avoid making the same mistakes? >> It's so weird because, you know, being incarcerated at a young age and, you know, a couple of days ago getting a straw in the Walk of Fame and now sitting here in front of all of these, you know, extremely intelligent people and they're actually paying, pretending like they're interested in what I'm saying. It's-- I've come a long way and, you know, I'm just very grateful, you know, but I really try to instill the, you know, the important values and faith being the most important. >> You have four kids? >> I have four, yes. >> Are you stopping there, or you got some more in you? >> I can probably pump out as many as my wife can handle, but I mean I'm the youngest of nine and my had other children from another relationship so you'll never know. >> Thanksgiving must be interesting then at your place? >> Yes. The most interesting being is a couple of years ago my brother Paul's house, so I went over there and my dad was like, " By the way these two guys are my kids too ." I was like, " Whoa ," I said, " What do you mean? I've never met them, you never told me about them ?" [ unk ] that's a long story. Then and I'm like, " Do you have any other ones ?" He goes, " Well, yes, there's another one named Danny but he's pissed because I named your brother Danny so he's not talking to me anymore ." So, yes. >> Paul Sosico of Austin, Texas wants to know if you'd be willing to drop a [ unk ] piles on a rap song if asked by the writers. >> No. >> Anyone? There's nobody could tempt you back? >> Not a chance. Actually, you know what? I'll take that back if Justin Beiber asked me, I'd do it for my daughter. My daughter would love that because she doesn't think I'm very cool, she loves me to death but she doesn't think I'm very cool so that might turn around. >> You worked with many visionary directors including Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson and David O Russell. Which director posed the biggest challenge for you as an actor? >> All of them in different ways. I would have to say Martin Scorsese. >> Because? >> Well, first of all because he's Martin Scorsese and then second of all he doesn't take anything less than your best. >> He's very manic, all the time, right? >> Yes, non- stop, and then every five minutes he's giving you history lessons; stuff you have no idea what he is talking about and you don't want to just say yes or, you know, so you're like looking it up so you want to make sense, you know, make sure that you actually know what he's talking about. >> Danny Gill of Cincinnati, Ohio was one of very many people who asked the question, " Where you really upset with Andy Samberg's Saturday Night Live impression of you? >> No. I didn't-- I haven't-- I wasn't aware of it and then somebody showed it to me and they were all like, " What do you think ?" I was like, " Wow ." It's not that funny but it's-- it feels flattering, you know, to, you know, have them spoofing you on Saturday Night Live, but it seemed like a good way because I have been asked a number of times to host the show so it seemed like a good way to kind of go there and check it out. >> It is at-- it's a difficult moment for action stars to cross over into comedy, I mean you don't want to leave it too late like Arnold Schwarzenegger maybe in Kindergarten Cop, and you don't want to go too early, and I wondered how did you decide, okay, now I'm an established enough action star but I can go between both? >> I have faced these choices a few times in my life. I remembered when Boogie Nights came up I was like, " Where are the guys in the neighborhood ?" I think if I'm playing vulnerable and innocent, you know, it's doing like a movie like Fear is great, everybody thinks you're a hero, you know, you chop the dog hard, that was crazy and I was great, you had the girl you were like a caveman carrying around [ unk ], but, you know, but doing something like that it's like gosh, you know, what's everybody going to think, and then certainly with comedy that was another thing but I'm not worried about what they think anymore. >> If you could redo your whole career in the entertainment industry, what would you not do again? >> There's a couple of films I would have at least done differently. I mean there are days when I wish I didn't- the ones thing I will say is that stupid book I did where I dedicated it to my penis, and gonna have a long, and it wasn't like oh God this, it wasn't something I thought about, I was trying to be funny and be sarcastic and couldn't think of anything else and the lady was like, " Are you sure ?" So, I said, " Yes, what's the big deal ." I want to-- and then of course, you know, this is now something that I get asked all the time so that was definitely one thing I have not done. >> Is your penis at least grateful? >> That's one question I won't answer. >> That just about wraps up our questions from readers. That last one, not really from our reader. Thank you very much for coming. >> Thank you guys. 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