Oprah's 2020 Vision Tour Visionaries: The Rock Interview

oMG it's about to happen so of the nine visionaries joining us on the WWE presents 20/20 vision tour your life InFocus there's only one man but when it's one of the most recognizable big-hearted delightful fun strong people on the planet he's all you need please welcome Dwayne the rock Johnson [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] look at that what's up Atlanta Thank You Oprah for having me thank you guys you know it means so much to everyone that you are here with us today since it was only ten days ago that your father rocky the soul man Johnson passed away and when that happened I thought oh no I didn't think that you'd be able to be here and you are here so thank you for being here thank you so it's been it's been has it been a challenging week it has it's been a challenging past couple of days my father he passed away on January 15th and we just buried him a few days ago yes and you know it um as we all go through this and we all go through this our own process of grieving and and regret and all these things and emotions that we go through and but again it's the cycle of life and it's beautiful it's painful it's amazing it's incredible it's all these things and I I will tell you this that in this process I had a very complicated relationship with my dad and it was really there was a foundation of tough love with my father and wasn't a big I love you guy and the as complicated as it was what gave me great satisfaction at the funeral was to see he he was a great friend to so many guys challenged father but a great friend to so many people so he he went quick there wasn't a lot of suffering thankfully but I read on on Instagram where you'd said you wish you'd had just one more day do you think you got all the things said that you wanted to say no you did not no I did not but you know so that's the tricky thing I think as we all go through this and we all lose loved ones is I think what I've realized in the past couple of weeks is it's good to explore these feelings I'm feeling a little guilty and I didn't get a chance to say the things that I wanted to say or I wish he would have said the things to me yeah as a father now as a father of three daughters the important critical things that anchor us that I didn't get from him and it's okay to explore those feelings but it's also very important to heal to make sure that we come back to an anchoring foundation of of gratitude a gratitude for for what I was able to have with him yeah you know and so I didn't get a chance to say the things that I wanted to say to him however another thing that is important too is you know because in death that's when we can spiral and think well I should have done this and I should have called I should have sent more pictures but we got to realize that the relationship that I had with my dad was a relationship that was him that was appropriate at that time absolutely when did you know that he was proud of you I felt that he was proud of me when I became successful in a industry that he had given his life to so my father for a lot of you guys who don't know he was a professional wrestler and so was your grandfather and my grandfather was a professional wrestler too and my dad Rocky Johnson was a I'm half black and half Samoan and my dough thank you all the Samoans in the house the reason why I say this my dad was a black man coming up in the 60s and 70s in a world of professional wrestling which and all in a lot of the companies he wrestled at was all throughout the south so he was a trailblazer in many ways because what he was able to do as a black man was wrestle we lived here in Atlanta when I was a kid but he was able to do was go to these small towns where it was an all-white wrestling business an all-white audience and at that time in the late 60s where racial tension and divide was still very strong and the wounds were still there but he was able to change behavior the audience's behavior so this all-white audience who would never cheer a black man cheered him in these arenas and he was actually and he was it's not like he was wrestling against other black man he was resident gets other white wrestlers so in a trailblazing sense he was a trailblazer he did a lot of things that had never been done but he also changed audience behavior which is so hard and the reason why I bring that up is because he was adamantly against me getting into the wrestling business why because when I said to him I want to get into the professional wrestling business he's in your blood because it's in my blood and I felt like I had something to offer but at that time we were living in a small apartment in Tampa Florida and he said look around this is what I have I don't have anything and I don't want that for you Wow so I still had to follow my gut yeah a my instinct and I think years later once I became successful as a wrestler he was very very proud and then what he did he would take he would take credit for everything yeah of course I taught him everything I know yeah and so you know I often feel that when people someone close to you passes you now have an angel you can call by name and in spirit you can feel them in ways that you couldn't in the flesh and because there's a density to the flesh and I wonder have you reached that yet it's just been recent have you reached the point where you can feel like you have that speak you know the spirits unite they become yes one I love that you said that I feel like the day he died that night I went to bed and I felt I felt so again grateful and moved like emotionally like mana and energy because I realize like oh wow I have a new relationship with you yeah in death I have a new relationship in spirit I have a new relationship with you clean slate no regrets no pain no anger no complication just me and you I love that and you just mentioned mana I saw on your insta where you were talking about thinking of all your fans for the month what is mana okay so mana in Polynesian culture we have a word called mana and mana is a powerful word it means spirit power and so for example an example of mana is when we walk out and we walk on stage the mana in this room is so palpable Oh y'all got good mama we got good mana here and that's what it is it's very powerful it's a very powerful thing so your father was very strict now here's the thing you've gone one-on-one with some fierce competitors in the ring right but now you want in one of the scariest situations any man can be in raising three daughters yeah yes extremely scary and are you a strict dad I am NOT super strict but discipline is important and but also you know I'll go back to my dad my dad loved me with a small capacity in which he was capable of so I learned from that and so with my daughter's I want to be as full in his present with the love that I give them yes yes that's what I'm talking about what do you want to make sure that they get that you didn't get and it's so interesting when you have children I've seen this from a lot of people who you didn't get what you needed you just didn't get what you needed because of what the rock just said your parents didn't have the capacity to give it to you and now that you're older you have to learn to give that to yourself and to be able to give that to your children in a way that you don't carry on what was done to you so what is it you want your daughter's to know about the way you love them I want my daughters to know that I love them unconditionally truly unconditionally without condition and I have a daughter who's 18 years old her name is Simone Jasmine who just turned 4 maybe tiana thank you he's getting ready to turn to and I am as I told my 18 year old daughter Simone I said I love you I'm gonna tell you I love you every day I'm gonna text you I know you're one of those say the words out loud I yes because I didn't get that yeah I'm look at you I love you and I'm gonna text you but I also told her I'm unattached you don't even have to text me back right you could text me back is fine but you don't have to like it's okay it's without condition it's it's unconditional love and I also want to teach my daughter's the value of hard work more importantly I want to teach my daughters the value of being kind and how important that is mm well you know I I read that your father you used to watch him in training and he would say if I'm gonna get up at 6:00 a.m. you're gonna get up at 6:00 a.m. so what do you think you got the most from him was it your work ethic what was it it was definitely my work ethic my dad was a man who who against the odds made it and but he would get up at usually 5:00 5:30 in the morning and he would say if I get up you're gonna get up too he would drag me to the gym and by the way I'm 5 years old he would drag me to the gym yes and I would I wouldn't work out but he would just make sure that I was there and be with him and that was our time that we could spend together and but I would say my work ethic from my dad my dad always said to that regardless of what you do in life and where you go respect is gonna be given when it's earned and you have to go out and earn it every single day yeah so your dad taught you a lot I wonder what have your daughter's taught you my daughters taught me how to be I think more caring and more sensitive and more selfless yeah were you there for all of them when they were born oh I was right there right there I mean right there I mean you were right I was right there yes and bring it on I mean this is our moment yes yeah yeah and is that a life-changing moment when that happens for you it's the greatest thing that I have ever experienced in my life and it gave me such a profound respect for my babies mamas I have to I was once married and now I'm happily married Lauren is back there we've known each other for 13 years now but I have it is has been the most profound experience of my life because also too you know when you meet so as a man you meet someone you meet a woman and this is gonna be the one and you want to get married in my first marriage didn't work out but then the birth of a child and what that does and the the lens perspective that just shifts and it just gives me a new profound respect for again their moms and so it didn't work out with the marriage but then she became your business partner your first marriage she did yes yes he still are we still are so my my first my ex-wife Danny we the marriage didn't work out it was just one of those things where it wasn't an ugly divorce it was just marriage wasn't in our cards great friends marriage wasn't in our cards but we had but we both had an appetite for business and to accomplish things and we thought well what if we continued to do business together and do you think we can and it felt like it was like we could make something happen and we did so we had doesn't have to be ugly no it doesn't have to be and that's the thing you move that yes and if you could kind of remember as I tell my friends my friends who do go through divorce if you could remember what it was years ago yeah and what that what is the reason why you got entangled in the first place so tell me this I know you didn't grow up with a lot of money and I read the story about when I think you were around 15 and there was an eviction notice on the door and how that was made a big impression on you right it did now yes now you're one of the highest paid actors in the world oh thank you I do all right thank you all right and does does that title the sexiest man alive the highest paid in the da da da all the do all of those do though what do those titles mean if anything you're the greatest you're the most popular the most followed you're the most you the most the most the most oh it's great for the ego it's wonderful yeah the better question is how do you keep your ego in check when all of that is happening yeah very important people have around me and how important that is you have anybody who can tell you the truth at this point yeah she's called my wife yeah okay tell you yes Lauren could tell me the truth but by the way and this is where it's the tricky thing for us to being in this position is we want to make sure that we have people around us who are inspired to do well and reach for and continue to share our vision but also at times say well I'm not quite sure if that's the right thing to do so look I've had a wonderful career especially coming from being evicted and those titles are nice and everything is fine but honestly I you know the I'm so grateful to be in the position of men and I never take anything for granted I try not to that you were once evicted because it gives you such an appreciation for what you have now it just gives such perspective when we were 14 years old we lived in Hawaii and we lived in a small efficiency apartment and we were my mom and I came home and I'll never forget the rent was $180 a week and there was an eviction a week and there was an eviction notice on the on the door and it was this was the one it was the final eviction notice like that's the one my mom started crying and I never forgot in that moment it was a seminal moment for me because I felt like I never want to be in this position again what can I do so at 14 years old I thought well the heroes in my life Muhammad Ali for example professional wrestlers they're all men who have worked hard with their hands and they built their body yes that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do what my dad taught me and these other euros I'm gonna go build my body so we're never evicted again but being evicted by the way as as you were saying has not only given me just great perspective but also great gratitude but also and my team and my family we laugh at it but I feel this way like well you know we're a month away from being evicted I gotta go to work like I still have that image I still have that in my head you know where but it it keeps you grounded by the way yeah yeah because I that's why the the most this and the most that again it's wonderful but the alternative is what I once was and it also doesn't change the way you're wired because I still save toast I do I will save a toast rather than throw it away and I know I I know I there's gonna be more toast but I still do because there's something in me because when we were growing up we had to save it you know you weren't allowed to like throw food away so there was a really big deal so here's the deal you have now the you get the biggest paychecks you have all this money acclaim fame you didn't have that growing up how do you raise children who have good sense and are also kind when they have everything because part of what made you who you are is having had that eviction notice and having not had everything so how do you do that with how are you planning to do that with your children so for example with our 18 year old daughter it was really important that we share those stories share the stories about being evicted her mom's parents were we're immigrants who came over from Cuba it's important that we've always shared those stories and also we live we try and keep it as simple as we possibly can and I live we have a farm in Virginia happily to say that we I've moved my family here to Atlanta place 3045 minutes away where it's very quiet but also just making sure that we continue to instill in the babies and the kids the value of a dollar and what it means and a value of food and always saying how grateful we are and the things that were grateful for especially at that young age so I want to know how is success different from the way you imagined it would be I never imagined this I at one time when I was a kid I did feel in my heart and in my gut that I was that I thought oh I think the world's gonna hear from me I don't know how but I do feel that way but I never thought in my mind it was this level of success or fame even it was I don't know how but the world is gonna hear from me so you know which is maybe why you know I times I could walk around and I could look at things like I'm like I'm a big kid like everything can at times could be like I'm in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory where I'm just really in awe of everything that's really happening around me what's the first thing you splurged on when you realize you had enough to splurge okay so the first thing I splurged on so when I was a kid 14 years old 13 14 years old in my mind the what it meant to be successful it was a Rolex watch ah right so there's there was such a valuable lesson out of this so I thought four years away everyone every successful man has a Rolex watch and has diamonds in it so what I finally was making a little bit of money and this was in 1999 and I thought okay and this by the way I was still living in an apartment paying monthly rent but again oh you written in buying a Rolex horrible financial if you're buying a Rolex yes yeah this is what not to do so I thought this is it I'm gonna splurge and I went and I got myself a Rolex and I wore it at that time I was wrestling I wore it in the ring not for a match but I was doing an interview in the ring and I worn the ring and a melee broke out which always happens in the wild world of professional wrestling one of the wrestlers fell on the Rolex when it came off it broke a live TV and you see me oh my gosh I'm supposed to be in the moment and wrestling these other guys oh no my Rolex like you can see the day I'm trying to get my Rolex and somebody's like kicking me and I'm trying to get it so I finally get my Rolex back I go backstage I look at it I'm heartbroken now this is my thing and I go home that night and I remember I even remember immediately thinking this is a sign and I I believe inside yes it's a sign yeah and I will and I don't need it and and it wasn't right for me at that time and and and I never got anything like that again and so now do you just do you splurge carefully I do I'm not a big bling guy or anything like that and I am I always want to just make sure that now the splurge is usually with properties like we have two properties that way I believe in real estate yes yes you do I don't know yes I love property the way some women love shoes because this guy isn't making any more land okay that's right we got here on the planet earth you're not getting any more yeah that's right yeah and also the properties are our anchor it's where we get be comfortable and so I that and I have a few pickup trucks that's it just a few so I remember reading this that it was like WrestleMania 13 and you're still being called rocky and there were a bunch of fans at the time who were cheering you and they were saying you know you know unkind things and you use that moment and literally turned on your heels and turned it around and you know this whole vision tour is about people who've been knocked down sometimes in life everybody you know not in a ring but have had those moments where you didn't feel like the rest of the world saw you for who you needed to be how are you able to turn that around okay so thank you for bringing that up so this is um it was a turning point in my career and it really allowed me to to grow and it really allowed me just to be me and be anchored in with Who I am so when I first started wrestling the idea was well why don't you call yourself Rocky Maivia out of respect for your dad Rocky Johnson even grandfather Peter Maivia I hated the name and I thought well I just wanted to make my own way and I wanted to be independent I love my family but I don't want to do it like that because it feels like I'm trying to leverage their fame the powers that be said nope that's your name I was also told well when you go out and you wrestle you have to smile you have I want you to smile big this is in the WWE why are you smiling if you don't know what the idea was I was a I was a rookie in the wrestling business I was a what's called the restaurant business as a term called babyface which is a good guy I was being groomed as a good guy wrestler young the idea was you're grateful grateful for the opportunity so when you go out there I want you to smile you can't smile enough and I thought well what if I lose nope yes exactly you still got a smile and it just didn't feel right that didn't sit right with me so a few months later the company made me the Intercontinental Champion and then a month later we go into the annual biggest event it's like the Super Bowl of wrestling WrestleMania and it was WrestleMania 13 by the time I got to Chicago Wrestlemania 16,000 people in the middle of the ring when I was in the ring and I'm supposed to be a good guy and they're supposed to cheer me 16,000 people were chanting rocky sucks thank you for laughing but it was can you hear the word sucks clearly when you're on the mat rocky sucks when yes yeah there's a reverb that happens in the arena and when in unison not uh not at one person yeah 16,000 and I was I remember laying there in the ring and the referee said to me don't listen to him and it was crippling for me yeah but so then at that time the powers-that-be thought this isn't going to work and for whatever reason people are not liking you and they're not connecting with you and so in that moment it was very defining because I asked then if I could just be myself and if I could go out there and if I can speak to the crowd and if I could just be myself and be authentic and if I don't want to smile I don't smile if I want to laugh I laugh if I want to sing I sing whatever it is I just want to be me can I have that for one minute of live TV time powers would be at that time Vince McMahon said you got it so on Raw live TV I grabbed a microphone and I said I may be a lot of things but sucks isn't one of them and I said something to the effect of basically it's not at this thing it's not of that thing it to me being myself thing and and before you know it I guess the moral of the story is the importance and the power of finding your identity and being true to who you are even in that wild world of pro wrestling it still applies to everyone the room and how powerful that could be because it was a true shift and click moment and I never looked back and I became fortunately the biggest draw that the business has ever seen Wow and didn't isn't that the moment really that particular moment the you suck moment turned into the moment of you becoming the rock and no longer rocky correct yes so that's when it was Rocky Maivia and I said you know what I'm not gonna be called that we're gonna shorten it I'll be called the rock and here we go it's working for you it's working all the success you stay you still see every opportunity as kind of a crack in the wall tell me tell us what that means for you I do so what that means is I still see every opportunity that I have is like a little crack in the wall a little scratch and I it's almost as if like every opportunity represent the scratch represents every opportunity therefore the success on the other side of the scratch is the light scratching hard clawing digging it's that mentality to really take advantage of every opportunity I have so have you reached the point where you accept your success like the world sees it we all know it 169 million insta followers have you accepted it do you believe it have you owned it for yourself I have today yes and not no but in this yes this time in my life yeah yes because there was a time where I wasn't quite too sure if I was confident enough as to the why and why it was happening and what am i doing because it wasn't very systematic it wasn't it's not like I had a big blueprint because there really wasn't a blueprint for me to follow when I came from wrestling to Hollywood there wasn't a oh look just do it like that other black Samoan guy did it yeah and you're gonna be great yes at that time the biggest movie stars in the world were George Clooney and and then the movie you did with Arnold Schwarzenegger it was sort of like it felt like it was a passing of a torch I did a movie called The Rundown yes where he walked by and he said have fun and he was great yeah and that and do you prefer the acting or the wrestling or all of it all of it is connected for you I think all of it is connected you know what I do love I just I love any whether it's acting or wrestling or producing or any of the other businesses or investments it all just has to have a connective tissue to me wrestling to me why isn't it not just beating people up I know it's more there's a discipline to it there's an art to it yes it's almost like a physical soap opera and I always say with physical soap opera okay like a physical soap opera like physical theater I always tell people I say you know whenever I would win it was very real like wrestling was very real because I was literally beat my opponent and it was very legit but whatever I would lose oh it's fake it's not real but aren't you the first and only third generation wrestler I was I was a very first third generation wrestler in the history of wrestling and I went on to have a pretty accomplished career and what I'm also proud of is my first daughter Simone who's 18 years old straight-a student she's at the University of Central Florida she's training now to become a WWE Superstar really yes she's working so hard so we know you're relentless about your workouts you even travel with your own I heard you have your own 40,000 pound mobile gym yes you travel with your gym yes oh but let me give everybody context as to why I travel with the gym it's just it's very it's it's hari huh there we go Wow but you call this your anchor and where you actually you find solitude I do yes so the the gym for me and this physical activity for me is my anchor and I always you know I would recommend that for all of you guys in the room is for us to find that anchor whether it's hiking or biking or yoga or meditation or whatever it is because for me the gym just some sort of physical activity it enters my day and then it allows me to go on and work for the rest of the day so it is it is a spiritual practice for you but it's way more than just physicality it's way more than just picking up a weight it's just it is my balance it's my anchor it's my spiritual anchor mental because what it allows me to do it's the only time for me that and we all need this because this treadmill of life there's no stop button so it's so crazy it just allows me to block out the noise and clear my head think about what I need to do or accomplish or think about the things I need to accomplish without the influx of information and people trying to talk at me impulsively what would you workout today my workout today was I did chest and I did back I can see it I did those things so I know your company is called seven bucks because you found yourself at one time in your life with only seven bucks in your pocket you've now turned that around I did when I had a dream and that dream was to play professional football I fell in love with the game of football played a University of Miami we had great thank you great teams we won a national championship my goal was to play in the NFL again because we didn't have a lot of money so I wanted to be the first one to buy my parents a house by myself I never lived in a house until I was 29 years old and the dream didn't come true I didn't get drafted I didn't get any offers nothing I had to work up in Canada at the Canadian Football League and when I was cut thank you when I was cut from there when I was cut from there I had my dad had to come pick me up and I'll never forget we're on i-75 he lived in Tampa came to Miami in his pickup truck we drove up I 75 and I'm 23 years old I am forced to move back in with my parents which was you know because you you want to tackle the world and yeah you have all these dreams and none of it came true and it was also hard because all my friends around me those teammates they were NFL stars and they became millionaires buying their parents at home you know that's the thing you want to buy your mama home so um I said I wonder how much money I have and I took out my wallet and I had a six I'm sorry I had a 501 and some change and at least I rounded up optimistic and so I thought oh I have seven bucks and now everything my production company and all marketing are everything is seven bucks yeah and I love that because I believe that everything that is happening to us is happening to lead us to whatever is the greater moment and so remembering the seven bucks and now turning your entire company empire into seven bucks productions and I know you all have a special thing coming to Atlanta right you're planning something special right here we do we have a big event coming to Atlanta it's called athletic on did you hear about this athletic on yeah thank you it's great athletic on is it imagine if Oprah's 20/20 vision tour and comic-con and a great fitness expo had a baby so athletic on is we're bringing together the best of athletics and entertainment and wellness and we're gonna have it here in Atlanta and the city has been great and I can't wait night and it's gonna be at the end towards the end of the year speaking of having babies I'm not sure if you had a minute actually the past week to see what Tina Fey said about you when she joined us on stage in Minnesota did you see this I saw it yes yeah I have to say I heard that you really like the poster that we shared announcing for the tour tell us tell us hi well one I'm so like the mountain like this I would like this to be how we repopulate the world just we go to these women in the rock start society over [Applause] are you good with Tina Fey's plans look here's the thing I got okay we got work to do that was so funny I saw that but but yes I think in the spirit of populating the human race and taking care of the human race I just have to ask my wife Lauren I'm sure she'll be down with that barn would you loan him out a little bit okay I think part of the reason that both men and women are drawn to you is that beyond actually the the buff exterior in a world where masculinity is evolving would you not say it's changing yes it's completely changing it's been a long time overdue yeah and I would say that in this world the reason why we love you so much is you always seem to be softer comfortable with your softer side has that always been or you as or has that been a learning since your daughter's that's been a learning experience since my daughter's were born and that but that continues to evolve it's just it continuously I took it's a continued management and a growth thing of but also being acutely I think empathetic that was a big thing to was just the power of empathy and really trying to be empathetic to not only my family but also people and but then also self empathy to really help me did you learn that through therapy because you've been pretty open about how going to therapy helped you when you were struggling to bet on yourself I did learn that it took time for me to learn that one because I had gone through my first bout of depression I was 18 years old after that I think I was 23 that'll then after that was when I got a divorce so it had been a learning experience through that therapy really helped me help you make how did therapy help make you more of the man you wanted to be once I understood that once I understood that number one I'm not alone when it comes to mental struggle and that we all go through it because growing up being in a hat like my dad was tough love so sharing feelings and emotions I didn't have that so I held everything in and plus I was an only child you the strong silent type I was the strong silent type meanwhile there was a lot of stuff happening going on in here so I also so for me to become the man that I am today fortunately one was one I'm not alone but then the other side to that it's like the a-site the b-side and maybe the most maybe the most important side is to communicate and talk and get it out and it's okay like your friend brené Brown who I love we talked about this about being vulnerable yes it's about being vulnerable and the power of being vulnerable and something that we we shy away from certainly men yeah and I think probably big men really do because people put another kind of expectation on you when you're a big man so men don't cry so big men really don't cry big men really don't cry you have to be tough through it all you have to play through the pain and things like that but you know over the years you realize that it's unhealthy and B it's just not me I realize that me and the identifying Who I am and who I am is I'm I need to talk about this I need to talk about my issues my fears my depression and it be okay and so not only am i okay with it but at times I actually enjoy it to be able to get it out especially if I publicly and talk publicly too about it and how important that is too because yeah you just realize that it's do you feel the weight of your fame I do I really do now especially as you get a little older you know you just feel it feel the pressure and the weight of everything this is why it's so important to man anchor at home and with the family and and good people around ya as well yeah you know I I said to the audience earlier I never never had therapy because I had the Oprah show so I told all my business out there on the streets and also because I had Gayle to talk to every night sure did every night do you have a Gayle I do I'll tell you a funny story about this and I was going to show you the text is last night I come home from work and my wife Lauren she's because you excited about tomorrow so I can't wait it's gonna be so good and I said you know I I know that Oprah's gonna ask me who my Gayle is and she's sitting there and I could just see her face kind of lights up a little and she's like shift shifting a little and she's like oh I mean who who who's your who's your Gayle and of course for me because I'm horrible that way I'm like oh there's an opportunity so I go well yeah that's crazy but I think when I was 15 I had this my friend Nick so good and her face changed and then okay okay she's the sweetest woman okay okay okay sure I said you know because it was really defining time in my life when I was 15 and Nick she's like sure sure sure so again horrible I leave I go in the kitchen I'm eating I take a picture I said hey why don't you come out and eat some of this food with me she hits me right back bang CAPITAL LETTERS nick is not your Gail he's not your Gail with ten exclamation point and I ran into the bedroom I said kidding you're my Gail so it would be it would be my wife Lauren that is so good when you can have a partner yes you know heroes karriesue cough calls that a spiritual partnership when you have a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth meaning you're growing together in spirit you're there for one another a hundred percent and that's what our relationship is and it reminds we just we were married this past August and we were there and there was so much mana and you you proposed three days before I did I wouldn't let me just we knew we were getting married but I was waiting for the right opportunity to actually get down on one knee and so I wanted to wait I wanted to go to Hawaii I wanted it to be special I didn't want to do it my living room so I kept telling her I know we're planning the wedding and I know we're going through the process I promise you I'm gonna get down on one knee so three days before I said to her with we took the babies on a walk I said hey let's take a walk we walked out to the cliff and we're just looking at the the sunset and I get down on one knee she turns around and I said will you marry me Wow yes Wow it was beautiful and you got married 8:00 morning is that true I got good we got very we got married very early I got a workout that's the thing no we did we got very married very early because in Hawaii you know everybody was up who travelled in because of the time difference and and also we had a very small wedding I mean maybe there was ten adults ten people that was it Wow so I'm just a Saturday here we're in a stadium with 12,000 people but if you and Lauren we're just hanging out with the girls what would y'all be doing we'd probably be either be playing with the girls or or fishing I love doing that like on the properties we have it like I love raising fish and bass and striped bass and things like that I'm a real country boy at heart so we do a lot of fishing well you know we got a few good men here in the audience not only she's showing up here today as I said to them again it's gonna get them points for the next eight weeks yes what advice do you have for these men to keep their women happier remember that you're usually wrong number one but I would say key words to remember yes honey you're right but listen I would say that is is really listen like become a really good listener and it took me a long time to understand that and how important that was because when you become a good listener and you really listening to your partner in this relationship of love and spirit as you talk about then inherently you become more empathetic and when you become more empathetic then you just understand your wife and your partner on a deeper level on a greater level and then there's a greater level of appreciation too as well and then you make babies yeah well you make babies someone asked me this yesterday and I love this question what still surprises you the most about people I think the thing that surprises me the most about pet I don't know if it's a surprise maybe it just gives me great comfort and I like it it makes me feel good is probably in our world today there's such a magnification of of negativity and pessimism and it's just it's always out there and it's around but people are good the majority of people I feel are good in their heart they're good I believe that yes and what surprises you still surprises you the most about yourself about myself yeah that I still get wide-eyed at a lot of things that are very like even though you've had the dance before and you've been around the Lakhan I get why diet of things like this and and little I can I get why diet at at the little things like I really appreciate the little things okay fill in this blank I'd never miss a movie if blank was in it myself no Tom Hanks 100% oh nice so I'm I'm guessing you're not interesting in tackling Shakespeare anytime soon but is there a part you'd really love to play a musical a medical drama well I do think there's a musical I would still love to do a musical that's the thing I love music and and maybe that I did Moana for Disney which we sang a little bit in thank you thank you that was fun with lin-manuel Miranda but yeah maybe musical one day yeah I saw that you told Rolling Stone that you plan to be a little more vocal about who you support in 2020 did you hear that some people said you and I should run I did I mean you know look I gotta tell you that ticket looks pretty good Oprah I'd be your vice any day honey as I would yours oh thank you everyone today has been asked to clarify their vision for 2024 this year do you have one for yourself are you one who sets goals I do yes but I also find it very consistent like even throughout the year I'm trying to set goals too as well the vision for me in 2020 is well now since the passing of my dad it shifted a little bit into just a greater appreciation for life and when I talk about these little things and like really appreciating these little things I mean little things and really truly being in the moment and being present and how important that is and so even more present because the other stuff I feel you know the fame and the accolades and all that stuff is awesome but that comes and goes this kind of connection this and what I have with my family my daughters and people like that means everything you know I was talking earlier about intention and you have acquired and continue to acquire a lot as you're continuing to build seven bucks what is the purest highest truest intention behind it all because I know at the end of the day it isn't all about fame but it isn't all about making money so the reason why you want to continue to grow and succeed is what to create an amazing experience for people and that's important to me and because that's an opportunity that I have to give joy yeah and help whether it transform or a movie or a thing or whatever it is like that's the the audience's experience audience experience is something that's deeply personal to me and I think that goes back to when I would so before the bright lights of the WWE I was wrestling in a small wrestling company I would wrestle in flea markets and used car dealerships you put a ring in the used car dealership in the parking lot but the reason why I bring that and state fairs but there was an intimacy there and even and that level it was always about well how can I send the audience home happy and make people feel good and that's and by the way I also feel like if you were in a position to make people feel good it's such a powerful thing yeah it's such a powerful I know we did you for master class for own and something you said there really stuck with me that the most powerful thing you can ever do is to be yourself be yourself yeah yes and and and you were talking about that earlier about that moment that you yes learn to be authentic as when everything changed that's when everything changed it's like a shift and click moment when we for me when I realize there's great power and being myself same thing for all of us but I do I believe it's the most powerful thing that we could be it's easier said than done because I struggled for a long time trying to figure out what's my identity and Who am I and for example when I got to Hollywood the very first time I got to Hollywood in the early 2000s I was told again well if you want to be a star then you maybe you shouldn't talk about wrestling maybe you shouldn't go to the gym as much maybe you shouldn't raise your silly eyebrow and you know there was a lot of things like that but when you don't know you buy into it and so I thought okay well maybe so oh don't call yourself the rock okay so again I went through that entire process for years trying to figure out who I was and then when you look back in my earlier career the films I was doing they were good but just not you know like oh that's how I like to see him because he is his true authentic self and have you had a sweet revenge moment who sucks now yes it was okay so at this time when I felt like okay I really need to make a change in my career I need to be me and I want to have the kind of career that is a global career and I said I'm not quite too sure how we're gonna do it but I need you to buy into the vision with me and I'm willing to put in the work of my own two hands as I was telling my my agency at that time in Hollywood and they all looked at me like I had three heads and they thought well we just don't they thought okay sure sure sure sure kind of placating me and then eventually I'd left them and and then decided you know what my name is the rock and I come from the world of professional wrestling and I look the way I look and I talk the way I talk and I'd love to work out and you know what this is who I'm gonna be and then Here I am today so for those who said we don't get it kind of sweet revenge so you posted on Instagram in November joy and hope cost nothing remember this yes and yet it's the most powerful gift that we can all give and that's the real magic to life so after everything that you've been through particularly this past week what are you now most grateful for today I'm most grateful for life I'm most grateful for an opportunity most grateful for my family I'm most gratitude is a big thing with me I mean it is truly my anchor yeah yes right it's my anchor and I wake up with a heart full of gratitude and even in death and even when things don't go right and even though I didn't make it to the NFL me making it to the NFL was the best thing that never happened yes because it also gave me a great sense of gratitude to be here so I would say that it would be and also I want to tell you and I'll tell you this Oprah and I want to tell you guys like I I was so excited to come here and do this with you and share a little bit of my story and background and any kind of wisdom that I have learned over the years to share with you guys but I want you to know that especially this week of just you know laying my dad to rest I needed this from you and I thank you truly thank you thank you thank you so much I did I love you back our true good mana y'all just gave good mana but thank you I did I needed this and I needed this I needed the love and this mana because what I also realized is and I felt it coming in is that you know you go to rock concerts and things and events and wrestling matches or whatever but you know when you come to this room and you have thousands 12 13 15 thousand people who have one intention which is to be better and give so much love yeah and receive so much love it is a very powerful thing thank you for being here today to share it and I know one of the things that's exciting me is I know that of all the things that you're doing with 7 bucks that you're also starting a tequila company yes and I've said to the audience earlier that there's a rule that unless Jesus has told you otherwise you cannot come to my house without a tequila shot hahaha yes well I know your big tequila fan and we are we're starting I started a spirits company and tequila is the first expression tequila like you I'm a tequila lover and I have a special surprise for you you have a tequila surprise I have a tequila surprise for you and it's coming out oh oh my gosh what's it called it's called this tequila oh it's called Tara mana to arrow mana Tara Oh drink on stage so I thought this is Tara mana it's gonna come out next month I thought the occasion was appropriate because not only with tequila lovers and not only it was just an amazing day but also it is an early birthday gift to you and also this is the very person so none of this has ever been seen there's a very first bottle ever of tere amount of tequila and it is going to you and I'm gonna pour us just a sip oh you gotta sign it before you go well and this is a sipping tequila so it's a shot I'll let y'all know how it is so I would like to have make a toast to your father I'd like to make a toast to the man who helped make you the man that you are thank you and may your relationship with him in the beyond be stronger more profound and bring you all the love that you've always deserved Cheers yes I thank you and Cheers [Applause] you did good it's real all thank you it means a lot thank you very much I mean you did it's very good Thank You Dwayne the rock Johnson sign the bottle I will sign the hose thank you guys it's perfect

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Length: 57min 20sec (3440 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 29 2020