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" I learned a long time ago how to be coachable. "
Dwayne Johnson
Long
Time
Long Time
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" I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing. "
Dwayne Johnson
Good
Business
Love
" 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. "
Dwayne Johnson
Character
Family
Wrestling
" I've never gone wrong trusting my gut. "
Dwayne Johnson
Gone
Gut
Never
" 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. "
Dwayne Johnson
Thought
Hurricane
Family
" I do all my own stunts. I'm kidding. "
Dwayne Johnson
Own
Kidding
My Own
" As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me. "
Dwayne Johnson
Mind
Me
Safety
" 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. "
Dwayne Johnson
Rock
Wrestling
Want
" It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today. "
Dwayne Johnson
Me
Athlete
Carry
" I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone. "
Dwayne Johnson
Alone
Important
You
" We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love. "
Dwayne Johnson
Cancer
Live
Love
" My reputation precedes me now. "
Dwayne Johnson
Precedes
Now
Me
" With all the... success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid. "
Dwayne Johnson
Home
Life
Success
" 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. "
Dwayne Johnson
Push
Now
Door
" 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. "
Dwayne Johnson
Great
Painful
Me
" 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. "
Dwayne Johnson
Character
Fun
Own
" You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you. "
Dwayne Johnson
Audience
Know
Thinking
" When I was 8 years old, I saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy. "
Dwayne Johnson
Old
Years
North Carolina
" It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre. "
Dwayne Johnson
Surprise
Hollywood
Most
" If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things. "
Dwayne Johnson
Little Things
Love
Day
" My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school. "
Dwayne Johnson
Time
High School
School
" I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again. "
Dwayne Johnson
Walk
Think
Past
" 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.' "
Dwayne Johnson
Work
Me
Want
" Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me. "
Dwayne Johnson
Wrestling
Me
Director
" For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of! "
Dwayne Johnson
Great
Me
Opportunity
" My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining. "
Dwayne Johnson
Never
Entertaining
Goal
" The successful men I admired all built their bodies. "
Dwayne Johnson
Bodies
Admired
Men
" 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. "
Dwayne Johnson
Two
Sharing
I Can
" When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town. "
Dwayne Johnson
Ball
Champion
Summer
" 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. "
Dwayne Johnson
Hawaii
Time
Dance
" When I say I'm going to take care of a woman, I don't just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I'm going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I'm going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today. "
Dwayne Johnson
Woman
Take Care
Pride