Dwayne Johnson Quotes
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.
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My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she'd seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country - all around the world - who show that type of fortitude.
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When I say I'm going to take care of a woman, I don't just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I'm going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I'm going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.
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The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
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I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
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My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.
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I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.
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There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
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When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.
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Ain't nothing like a good cry.
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I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
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Nutrition is so important. It can't be stressed enough.
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I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.
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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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My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I'm a visceral guy.
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Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.
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I don't have a need for speed. I'm not that guy.
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I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
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The successful men I admired all built their bodies.
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Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my family. It was the only thing they knew. And then they would end up wrestling for a hundred bucks, go to autograph signings for two hundred bucks.
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In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.
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We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.
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My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.