Dwayne Johnson Quotes

The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'

Dwayne Johnson

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Difficult

• Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Everyone
  • Apple
  • Mobile

• I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Family
  • She
  • Fun

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Where
  • Commerce

• I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Relationship

• I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choice

• When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Two

• I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Country

• Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Mean
  • Everything
  • Computers

• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Laughter
  • Grace

• My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Women
  • Goal
  • Be Yourself

• Power tends to get confused with repression.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Power
  • Confused
  • Repression

• Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Character
  • Like
  • Darkness

• My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Proud
  • Now
  • Coaching

• All right. Since the world is about to end, why not give an impossible jailbreak one last try?

  

  Brandon Mull
  • World
  • Impossible

• Just as certain Cold War binaries were collapsing, new binaries of Sunni versus Shia or Arab versus Kurd were being created by the new occupation force. It's the corruption of that moment that I am really interested in.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • Force
  • Created
  • Corruption

• There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are strong enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Together

• I think that you have to get out there and get with the folks and push the flesh and be connected to viewers and listeners.

  

  Ed Schultz

• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  

  William Banting
  • Friends
  • Kind
  • Exercise

• The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'

  

  Dwayne Johnson