I've never gone wrong trusting my gut.
I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
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.
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.
Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.
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.
With all the... success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid.
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.
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.'
I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.
I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.
I do all my own stunts. I'm kidding.
One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.
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.
There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV.
I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'
I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.
I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.
Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.