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.
DWAYNE JOHNSONIn 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I won’t be. You Can Achieve Anything!
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I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.
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If something stands between you and your success – move it. Never be denied.
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I don’t worry about overexposure [in work], I think it’s important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out.
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One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.
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It doesn’t matter what you think!
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If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.
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Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.
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There’s so much noise that’s happening in our world, but the little voice that you’ve always got to listen to is your gut and your intuition, and you can do things and go beyond boundaries, if you to trust that gut and instinct.
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Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement – just 100% commitment to greatness.
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If you’re going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.
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The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it’s value to the audience and it’s value to me then I’m going to take my shot at it regardless at the genre.
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The whole idea is just to continue to make movies that I enjoy playing and that audiences are going to enjoy me in just to put out quality on a lot of different levels.
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Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It’s great.
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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.
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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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