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" As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud. "
Dwayne Johnson
Better
Mud
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" In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself. "
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" Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers. "
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" My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too. "
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" I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do. "
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" By the time I was 23 years old, I had multiple arrests. "
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" I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home. "
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" With all the... success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid. "
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" 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. "
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" It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre. "
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Most
" I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I'm not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain't sharing. "
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" 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. "
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" In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life. "
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" When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy. "
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He
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" I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live. "
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Live
" There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV. "
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Philosophy
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" I started in action, and then I went to comedy school. "
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" The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude. "
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" My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining. "
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" To be immortalized in a ride is a very cooI thing. "
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" 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. "
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" When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town. "
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" For 'Hercules,' I went for the demigod look: big and mean. When you're playing a character like the son of Zeus, you only get one shot. "
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" The successful men I admired all built their bodies. "
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" 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. "
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" I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years - since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, 'Hercules' was one of the movies that I - not chased, because I didn't have the power to chase anything - but always had in the back of my mind. "
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