I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Only Americans can hurt America.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

If I want to be called ‚The Rock,‘ I’ll be called ‚The Rock.‘ If I want to go back to wrestling, I’ll go back to wrestling.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s not my focus.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.