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" I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson. "
Dwayne Johnson
Johnson
Am
I Am
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Opportunity
" 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. "
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" Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights. "
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" Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining. "
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" When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii. "
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Growing
Growing Up
Connection
" 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. "
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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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Parents
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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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Entertaining
Goal
" 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. "
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Name
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" I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub. "
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Thought
Hurricane
Family
" 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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Money
Kid
Me
" If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that. "
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Yourself
Door
Ego
" Life is anything but predictable. "
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Anything
Predictable
Life
" 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. "
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Life
" I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live. "
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Like
Nothing
Live
" The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. "
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Know
Learning
Lesson
" There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard. "
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Hard
You
Creative
" If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien. "
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Enjoy
Alien
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" 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. "
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Day
Protein
" 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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Mind
Loved
Play
" 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. "
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Diet
Different
Will
" I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path. "
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Right Path
Path
Right
" 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. "
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Singing
Me
Losing
" 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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Early
Grind
Respect
" But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time. "
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Made
Movies
Time
" 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. "
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Hard
Work
Early
" 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. "
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Champion
Live
Winning
" I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players. "
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Good
Had
" I would never win an award for not loving pizza. "
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" I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today. "
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