Look at The Rock’s competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!
The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.
You don’t need directions, just point yourself to the top and go!
How families deal with loss, everyone has their own process.
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.
It doesn’t matter what your name is!
For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to mince about was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!
Know your role and shut your mouth!
Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.
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.
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.
I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.
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.
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.
You’ve got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they’ll accept from you.
With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains.
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.
I believe I’m not in the press, just in terms of being photographed and paparazzi all the time, or looking for that sensationalistic type of side or anything like that, so I keep things very quiet.
It’s easy to be a bad ass, it’s easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it’s easy to be a diva, and it’s easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.
I tell you, the arts – and especially ballet – the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.