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" Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. "
Dwayne Johnson
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" 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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" My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together. "
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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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" 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. "
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" If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don't think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He's there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he'll rip your face off. "
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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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" Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important. "
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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 break ground. I trailblaze. "
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" Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value. "
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" As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud. "
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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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" I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live. "
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" But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it. "
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" Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you. "
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" If you tell me there's something I can't do, I'll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining. "
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" Ain't nothing like a good cry. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" When I was 8, I thought I was Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Elvis, and Chuck Norris all at once. "
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" 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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" 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 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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" Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come. "
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" I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like. "
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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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" 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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