Dwayne Johnson Quotes
With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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Midi is my hobby.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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No one is going to remember a second-place team.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.
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With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!
