Top 120 Dwayne Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.”

— Dwayne Johnson

52. “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

53. “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

54. “How dare you little jabroni come onto The Rock shows Smackdown and run your mouth about how your the game, well The Rock says, if you are the game then you quite frankly you need to go back to the drawing board cause your game absolutely sucks!”

— Dwayne Johnson

55. “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

56. “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 Johnson

57. “It’s what I’ve learned over the years that has pushed me beyond limits.”

— Dwayne Johnson

58. “The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward which is if I see something that I like and I can see its value to the audience, its value to me, then I’m going to take my shot at it, regardless of the genre.”

— Dwayne Johnson

59. “With a haircut like that and a face like that, it looks like Billy Ray Cyrus went and had sex with a retarded hyena.”

— Dwayne Johnson

60. “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

61. “The money is of no concern to me, whatsoever. I started out with nothing.”

— Dwayne Johnson

62. “If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I’d also say I’m really handsome – especially if they were a female alien.”

— Dwayne Johnson

63. “The Rock has just one thing to say to you: poontang your ass on out of here!”

— Dwayne Johnson

64. “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.”

— Dwayne Johnson

65. “Now go back to Supercuts and get your $5 back jabroni!”

— Dwayne Johnson

66. “My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.”

— Dwayne Johnson

67. “I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.”

— Dwayne Johnson

68. “When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.”

— Dwayne Johnson

69. “It’s important for everybody to creatively honor him in the best way that we possibly can.”

— Dwayne Johnson

70. “Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It’s great.”

— Dwayne Johnson

71. “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

72. “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.”

— Dwayne Johnson

73. “Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.”

— Dwayne Johnson

74. “Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly.”

— Dwayne Johnson

75. “William Regal, what does besmirched mean?”

— Dwayne Johnson

76. “Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.”

— Dwayne Johnson

77. “The fact of the matter is this: Austin can take his ball, and go home. But as far as The Rock is concerned, as far as I’m concerned, this is home.”

— Dwayne Johnson

78. “And then all of a sudden, you’re doing jumping jacks, you’re happy, because Kane can talk. The Big Red Retard can finally speak.”

— Dwayne Johnson

79. “I remember crying my eyes out when I watched the end of the Lion King.”

— Dwayne Johnson

80. “I tell you, the arts – and especially ballet – the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.”

— Dwayne Johnson

81. “I didn’t want to play by what rules are in Hollywood.”

— Dwayne Johnson

82. “I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.”

— Dwayne Johnson

83. “Let The Rock understand this, he beats your ass in cage match last week and now your the number 1 contender? Well The Rock knows exactly why that is; you’ve got a three foot nose you turn it sideways and stick it straight up Vince’s ass!”

— Dwayne Johnson

84. “There’s something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who’s real, whether they’re still alive or not, but who has lived a life.”

— Dwayne Johnson

85. “I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.”

— Dwayne Johnson

86. “Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.”

— Dwayne Johnson

87. “I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.”

— Dwayne Johnson

88. “When I was a kid, I was always enamored by – I appreciated the movies, and I was able to see them on VHS when I was a kid, but I was so enamored by the one-sheets and the posters. I had them in my room when I was a kid.”

— Dwayne Johnson

89. “If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.”

— Dwayne Johnson

90. “How families deal with loss, everyone has their own process.”

— Dwayne Johnson

91. “The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.”

— Dwayne Johnson

92. “Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.”

— Dwayne Johnson

93. “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

94. “The Rock is going to lay the smacketh down on your candy ass!”

— Dwayne Johnson

95. “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

96. “I’m a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.”

— Dwayne Johnson

97. “I look for characters that are fun and that I’m going to have fun playing. By the way, that’s whether it’s drama, sci-fi, action, comedy, family movies or action-comedy. I just always want to have fun doing it. That’s the bottom line.”

— Dwayne Johnson

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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.”

— Dwayne Johnson