I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

Someone asked me once what my philosophy of life was, and I said some crazy thing. I should have said, how the hell do I know?

The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas...only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today.

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

I'm too sensitive. I could not show up to a murder scene and do anything like that. It would break me instantly.