Quote

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.

Dwayne Johnson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dwayne Johnson
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 2
Actor
American Football Player
Businessperson
Canadian Football Player
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Professional Wrestler
Hayward
California
Flex Kavana
Dwayne Douglas Johnson
Rocky Maivia
The Rock
Dwayne The Rock Johnson
Dwayne The Rock Johnson
Audience
Shot
Cliff
Making
Commit
Cliffs
Comes
Shots
Audiences
Great
Door
Jump
Good
Doors
Check
Time
Comedy
Respond
Pretty
Checks
Movie
Ego
Proverbial

More quotes by Dwayne Johnson

Image
As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
Steven Spielberg has this great quote: Moviemaking is always about noise. There's so many voices that you've gotta listen to. But you've always got to pay attention to the one voice that's in your gut that always tells you it's still not good enough.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
It doesn't matter what you think!
Dwayne Johnson
Image
The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
Take your ass to the corner of Know Your Role Boulevard and Jabroni Drive.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
I'm sorry, Mankind can't get to the phone right now, cause he's got The Rock's foot in his mouth!
Dwayne Johnson
Image
William Regal, what does besmirched mean?
Dwayne Johnson
Image
I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
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.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
I had no coaching. I came out of the world of pro wrestling. In that job there are no agents, no publicists, no media training. It's just you and the crowd, and you have to be real to win them over. And if you don't, you're not gonna eat. And that's it.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet
Dwayne Johnson
Image
Kevin Kelly, let The Rock answer your question with a question of his own: Are you mentally, as well as physically prepared to tickle the anus of a monkey?
Dwayne Johnson
Image
BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.
Dwayne Johnson
Image
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.
Dwayne Johnson