Dwayne Johnson Quotes
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I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.
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My parents weren't actors or studio executives.
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When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.
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I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.
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I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.
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In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life.
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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!
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I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.
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I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I'm not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain't sharing.
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Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.
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When I was 8 years old, I saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.
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I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.
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Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'
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When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.
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For 'Hercules,' I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you're playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot.
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I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.
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Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.
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I would never win an award for not loving pizza.
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I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
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When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.
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The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'
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I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.
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Life is anything but predictable.