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" I've never gone wrong trusting my gut. "
Dwayne Johnson
Gone
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" I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live. "
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" Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today. "
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" 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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" Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I've got a good feeling that I could win a championship. "
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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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" I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself. "
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" Maybe I'll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot. "
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" 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. "
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" You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you. "
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" 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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" 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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" Ain't nothing like a good cry. "
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" My parents weren't actors or studio executives. "
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" When a family film is done well, there's a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys. "
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" I love Steve Carell. "
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" We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love. "
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