Top 90 Dwayne Johnson Quotes

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

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.

You’ve got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they’ll accept from you.

We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.

I love Steve Carell.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

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

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.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

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

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

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.

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

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 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.

When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.

In wrestling, there’s a shelf life, and some wrestlers don’t pay attention to the shelf life.

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.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

‘Be Cool’ was a defining movie for me.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

I enjoyed working with Stephen Merchant. He was wonderful. I’ve been such a big fan of his acting.

That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

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

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.

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.’

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

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.

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.

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.

I’m always asked, ‘What’s the secret to success?’ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

My grandfather was one of the very, very first, if not the first, Samoan wrestlers to become known on a worldwide basis.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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 don’t race cars.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

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

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

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.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

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.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

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

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests.

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

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

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.

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.

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.