Dwayne Johnson Quotes
With all the... success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
-
I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
-
Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
-
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
-
I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
-
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
-
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
-
As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
-
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
-
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
-
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
-
What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
-
I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
-
'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
-
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
-
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
-
The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
-
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
-
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
-
Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
-
Relying on words to lead you to the truth is like relying on an incomplete formal system to lead you to the truth. A formal system will give you some truths, but as we shall soon see, a formal system, no matter how powerful—cannot lead to all truths.
-
India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.
-
With all the... success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid.
