I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I’m much more expressive off stage.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

I want to be an executive producer.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

A promise must never be broken.

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.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

See, winners embrace hard work.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

Our work is never over.

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.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It’s really only to be heard when everyone’s out enjoying it.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

It’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.