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.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It’s legal to follow me. It’s legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can’t call the police or ask them to leave.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

The first wealth is health.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Big Brother is watching you.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

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

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.