Latest Dwayne Johnson Quotes from Interviews

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• I had no coaching. I came out of the world of pro wrestling. In that job there are no agents, no publicists, no media training. It's just you and the crowd, and you have to be real to win them over. And if you don't, you're not gonna eat. And that's it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Real, Wrestling, Winning

• I used to get pissed every day. I would wake up and pick up my phone and look at the alerts, and it's like, "What am I gonna read today?" But then I realized I needed to try and be as grateful as I could possibly be. What we're in need of is a greater leadership that's inclusive and truly hears the people and doesn't have a knee-jerk reaction out of anger. Scenarios like this, while divisive, also clarify what we really want in the future. And we'll have a chance in a few years to cast another vote, and we'll see where the American people are when that time comes.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Grateful, People, Trying

• I think the most important thing is authenticity, just being as real as I can be. But also flexible and open to change and other ideas and thought processes. Back when you and I last talked, I was at a turning point in my life, and I was having a tough time. I was hiding it, but I had a really hard time just being me. So now it's important that I'm just me.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Real, Hard Times, Thinking

• Around 2010 - I took a long look at everybody I had around me because I wanted to make sure they were aligned with how I felt. I'm not ashamed of who I am or where I came from or the size God gave me. There was a large percentage of people who weren't [on the same page]. So I really shook up my team.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Team, Long, People

• When I'm unable to see a mistake I made right away. Maybe this is my Taurus mentality, but sometimes I don't see it and I don't see it and then, before you know it, I finally see it, and I'm like, "How the hell did I not see that? It was right in front of me all this time." And I have to look at the wake I left behind, the disappointment. That makes me feel weak.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Disappointment, Mistake, Sometimes

• In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that's accomplishment.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Running, Home, Accomplishment

• Social media, to me, is like a marriage. You have to foster it and take care of it and commit to it. And you have to understand your partner.

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  Care, Social Media, Take Care

• When I was a kid, I was a combination of Elvis, Richard Pryor, and Harrison Ford from Indiana Jones. I didn't know the value of being able to make someone happy. What kid really understands that? It wasn't until I got into professional wrestling that I felt like, "Oh, it's not only incredibly gratifying to achieve something but also to make people happy".

  Dwayne Johnson

  Kids, Wrestling, People

• Sometimes if you just take the time to really pay attention and break it down, you can figure out what caused it. And from there, generally, I can pull myself up out of it. And if I can't, that's where the support group comes in.

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  Support, Attention, Sometimes

• There was a time in my life when opportunities were so few and far between they were like little cracks in the wall, and if one opportunity came my way, I would scratch and claw and bite and I would do anything I could to make sure that I grabbed that opportunity by the throat and I did not let it go.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Wall, Opportunity, Let It Go

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Steven Spielberg has this great quote: "Moviemaking is always about noise. There's so many voices that you've gotta listen to. But you've always got to pay attention to the one voice that's in your gut that always tells you it's still not good enough."

  Dwayne Johnson

  Not Good Enough, Attention, Guts

  Source: www.esquire.com

• When I first came into acting, I had great opportunities to make a decent movie. I had a run there in 2005, '06, '07 - for a long time it was "Oh, he's the best thing in the movie that's not that good." I started questioning: Did I make the right choice? Should I have stayed in wrestling a bit longer? And then budgets became lower and lower and the pay kinda stayed the same and there wasn't a lot of growth.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Running, Wrestling, Opportunity

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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 came to Hollywood wanting a career that had longevity, and I wasn't afraid to take risks because I had a dollar in the bank. I wasn't driven by money as much as I was driven by making a successful transition. And I was smart enough to know that I certainly didn't have all the answers and I needed to surround myself with smart people and be willing to take risks and be willing to fail.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Smart, Successful, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Actors have a platform, especially during awards season. Which I respect. Everyone should speak out. Here's the thing: When it comes to using the platform, I'm a firm believer that when there's something that needs to be said, I'll say it.

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  Speak, Firm, Believer

  Source: www.elle.com

• There's so much noise that's happening in our world, but the little voice that you've always got to listen to is your gut and your intuition, and you can do things and go beyond boundaries, if you to trust that gut and instinct.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Our World, Voice, Intuition

  Source: collider.com

• In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

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  Careers, Cried, Consistently

  Source: collider.com

• In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.

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  Fun, Opportunity, Cool Things

  Source: collider.com

• We all love challenges.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Challenges

  Source: collider.com

• The Aloha spirit is something that is very special and very meaningful to us and our Polynesian culture. Those of you who have had the opportunity to visit Hawaii, or any of the Polynesian islands, know that it's a very special thing. It's an intangible, and when you get off the plane and have your feet on the ground there, it energetically takes you to a different place.

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  Meaningful, Opportunity, Feet

  Source: collider.com

• How families deal with loss, everyone has their own process.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Loss, Process, Deals

  "Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson On Those Green Lantern Movie Rumors". Interview with Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. March 25, 2014.

• It's important for everybody to creatively honor him in the best way that we possibly can.

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  Honor, Important, Way

  "Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson On Those Green Lantern Movie Rumors". Interview with Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. March 25, 2014.

• Creating things I think, especially as an actor - wanting to bring to the table things that have never been done before, but also making sure they're of high quality and not having a fear.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Thinking, Creating Things, Quality

  "Dwayne Johnson Talks HERCULES, Using Yak Hair, Working with Brett Ratner, Almost Getting Russell Crowe on Board, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

• I didn't want to play by what rules are in Hollywood.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Play, Hollywood, Want

  "Dwayne Johnson Talks HERCULES, Using Yak Hair, Working with Brett Ratner, Almost Getting Russell Crowe on Board, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

• I don't worry about overexposure [in work], I think it's important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out.

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  Thinking, Worry, Important

• I believe I'm not in the press, just in terms of being photographed and paparazzi all the time, or looking for that sensationalistic type of side or anything like that, so I keep things very quiet.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Believe, Sides, Quiet