Dwayne Johnson Quotes

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

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.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Maybe I’ll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

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.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to ‚mince about‘ was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

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.‘

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I’d also say I’m really handsome – especially if they were a female alien.

I’d love to do a musical. I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

I’m very low-key. I don’t really blend in, so it’s difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it’s a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

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.

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.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

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!

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

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.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

The only film I’ve enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in ‚The Wrestler.‘

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.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

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.

When a family film is done well, there’s a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

I’m a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

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.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

Come on, you can’t name a truck after a chick.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

My genetic make-up is one of physicality. I’m a visceral guy.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

When you have something as unique and special as the ‚Fast & Furious‘ franchise, you want to create an experience for the fans that they can only feel and experience at Universal Parks.

To be immortalized in a ride is a very cooI thing.

I don’t race cars.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

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.

When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once.