He's one of the highest-grossing actors in the world, a champion wrestler, an infamously nice man — and he might one day run for president.
This is the life of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.
This is the life of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.
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00:00When I was 15 years old, and I talked about earlier, I was evicted. We were evicted out of
00:04our one-bedroom apartment in Honolulu, Hawaii. We were forced to leave the island,
00:08and here we are today. I heard a quote when I was 15, and I thought, if I'm ever in a position one
00:14day, I'd love to be able to live this quote. And I figured this is the perfect time to deliver this
00:21quote to you guys, because it means so much to me in here, in my mana, in my spirit, which is,
00:27it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
00:49You know, professional wrestlers are entertainers, but they're crazy. And I grew up in a world of big
00:57crazy, entertaining men who learned me, all right, who learned me early the value of discipline
01:06and the steel hand.
01:08I come from that crazy, at times, dysfunctional wrestling family. My dad, my grandmother,
01:33grandfather, uncles, cousins, you name it. I was playing for the Calgary Stampeders. We were
01:49playing the BC Lions. I was so excited. Two days later, I got cut. It's a dream shattered,
01:56sent home with seven bucks in my pocket. It was at that moment that I decided that
02:00I was done playing football. My very first match in the WWE was at one of their biggest
02:14pay-per-views of the year called Survivor Series in the most famous arena in the world,
02:21Madison Square Garden, where my grandfather wrestled in the 70s for Vince McMahon's dad.
02:26My dad wrestled for Vince McMahon in the 80s, and here I came in in 1996.
02:48The Scorpion King. It's just a matter of having a diverse career and wanting to work in as many
02:53different genres as possible. Because I'm really good at it.
03:15It's actually Maui's shapeshifter demigod of the wind and sea,
03:18hero of men. What can I say except you're welcome?
04:48I'm a lucky guy. It's all girls. It's very special. Give me more estrogen.
05:06I respect our political process. I also don't have any delusions
05:10that it's easy. Maybe 2024, maybe 2028. I don't know.