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 The Rock: Thank you, Oprah, for having me. Much obliged to you, folks. Oprah: So, your dad was severe. Presently, stop and think for a minute. You've gone one on one with some savage competitorsin the ring, isn't that so? Be that as it may, presently you were in one of the most frightening situationsany man can be in bringing up three little girls. The Rock: Yes. Truly, amazingly unnerving. Oprah: And would you say you are an exacting Dad? The Rock: I am. Not too exacting, but rather discipline is significant. Yet additionally, you know, I'll return to my father. My father adored me with a little limit in whichhe was prepared to do. Thus, I gained from that thus with my daughters,I need to be as full and as present with the adoration that I give them. Oprah: Present, yes. That is the thing that we were discussing. What would you like to ensure that they getthat you didn't get? Furthermore, it's so fascinating when you have children,I've seen this from many individuals who, you didn't get what you required. You simply didn't get what you required becauseof what The Rock just stated, your folks didn't have the ability to offer it to you. Furthermore, presently that you're more seasoned, you need to learnto offer that to yourself and to have the option to offer that to your kids in a manner that youdon't carry on what was done to you. All in all, what is it you need your little girls toknow about the manner in which you love them? The Rock: I need my girls to realize thatI love them unequivocally, genuinely, genuinely without condition. Also, I have a little girl who's 18 years old,her name is Simone. Jasmine who just turned four, child, Tiana,thank you who is preparing to turn two. What's more, I am as I told my 18-year-old daughter,Simone, I said I love you. I will disclose to you I love you each day,I'm going to message you I love you… Oprah: So, you're one of the individuals who state thewords for all to hear? The Rock: Yes, since I didn't get that. What's more, I take a gander at you, I love you and I'm goingto text you. In any case, I additionally advised her, I'm unattached. You don't need to message me back. Correct? You could message me back. It's fine. Be that as it may, you don't need to, similar to it's alright. It's without condition. It's unequivocal love. Furthermore, I likewise need to show my girls thevalue of difficult work. All the more significantly, I need to educate my daughtersthe benefit of being kind, and how significant that is. Oprah: Well, you know, I read that your father,you used to watch him in preparing, and he would state, "In case I will get up at 6:00AM, you will get up at 6:00 AM." So, what do you think you have the mostfrom him? Was it your hard working attitude? What right? The Rock: It was certainly my hard working attitude. My father was a man who, against the chances, madeit. Be that as it may, he would get up at generally 5:00, 5:30in the morning, and he would state on the off chance that I get up, you will get up as well. He would drag me to the rec center and by the way,I'm five years of age, and he would drag me to the exercise center. Indeed. Furthermore, I wouldn't work out, yet he would justmake sure that I was there and be with him, and that was our time that we could spendtogether. Yet, I would state my hard working attitude from my dad,my father consistently said excessively that, paying little heed to what you do throughout everyday life and where you go, respectis going to be given when it's procured. What's more, you need to go out and procure it each singleday. Oprah: Yeah. Thus, your father encouraged you a ton. I wonder, what have your little girls taughtyou? The Rock: My girls showed me how to beI think all the more mindful and more delicate and more caring. Oprah: Yeah. Is it safe to say that you were there for every one of them when they wereborn? The Rock: I was not too far off. Oprah: Right there? The Rock: I mean, not too far off. Truly. Oprah: I mean, you were in that general area. The Rock: I was not too far off. Truly. Furthermore, ready and waiting. That is to say, this is our second. Truly. Oprah: Yeah. Better believe it. Furthermore, is that an extraordinary second, when thathappens for you? The Rock: It's the best thing that I haveever experienced in my life. What's more, it gave me a particularly significant regard formy children's mothers. I have two. I was once hitched and now I'm joyfully hitched. Lauren is back there. We've known each other for a very long time now butI have, it has been the most significant experience of my life on the grounds that likewise as well, you know, whenyou meet... As a man, you meet somebody, you meet a woman,and this will be the one and you need to get hitched and my first marriage didn'twork out. Yet, at that point the introduction of a kid and what thatdoes and the focal point viewpoint that just moves and it just gives me another significant respectfor once more, their mothers as... Oprah: So, it didn't work out with the marriage,but then she turned into your colleague, your first marriage? The Rock: She did. Truly, yes. Oprah: And you actually are. The Rock: We actually are. Thus, my ex, Dany, we, the marriage didn'twork out. What's more, it was only a unique little something whereit was certainly not an appalling separation, it was simply marriage wasn't in our cards. We're incredible companions. Marriage wasn't in our cards, yet we bothhad a hunger for business and to get things done. What's more, we thought, "Indeed, imagine a scenario where we continuedto work together and do you figure we can?" And it seemed like we could make something happenand we did. Oprah: I realize you didn't grow up with a lotof cash. Also, I read the anecdote about when, I think youwere 15, and there was a removal notice on the entryway and how that made a major impressionon you, correct? The Rock: It did. Truly. Oprah: Now, you're one of the most elevated paidactors on the planet. The Rock: Thank you. I do OK. Much obliged to you. Oprah: You do good. Furthermore, does that title, the hottest man alive,the most generously compensated in the... What do those titles mean regardless? You're the best, you're the most popular,you're the most followed, you're the most, you're the most, the most, the most, themost. The Rock: It's extraordinary for the conscience. It's magnificent. Oprah: Yeah, the better inquiry is, how doyou hold your sense of self under control when the entirety of that is occurring near? The Rock: Sure. Important. Individuals I have around me and how importantthat is... Oprah: Do you have anyone who can tell youthe truth now? The Rock: Yeah, she's called my better half. Indeed. Oprah: Okay. Lauren can come clean with you? The Rock: Yes, Lauren can come clean with me. However, coincidentally, and this is the place where it's thetricky thing for us to being in this position, is we need to ensure that we have peoplearound us who are roused to progress nicely and go after and keep on sharing our vision,but additionally at time say, indeed, I'm not exactly sure if that is the best activity. Thus, look, I've had a superb profession, especiallycoming from being ousted. What's more, those titles are decent, and everythingis fine. However, truly, I'm so thankful to be in theposition I'm in and I underestimate nothing. I make an effort not to… Oprah: Aren't you happy that you were onceevicted, in light of the fact that it gives you such a gratefulness for what you have now? The Rock: It just gives such point of view. At the point when we were 14 years of age, we lived in Hawaiiand we lived in a little productivity loft. Also, we were, my mother and I returned home, and I'llnever fail to remember the lease was $180 every week. Also, there was an expulsion… Oprah: seven days? The Rock: seven days. What's more, that was an expulsion notice on the entryway. What's more, it was, this was the one, it was the finaleviction notice, similar to, that is the one. My mother began crying, and I never forgotin that second, it was an original second for me since I sensed that I never need to bein this position again. What would i be able to do? Thus, at 14 years of age, I thought, indeed, theheroes in my life, Muhammad Ali, for instance, proficient grapplers, they're all men whohave buckled down with their hands and they assembled their body. Truly, that is the thing that I'm going to do. I'm going to do what my father showed me and theseother saints, I'm going to go form my body thus, we're never expelled again, however being evicted,by the way, has as you were stating has not just given me simply extraordinary viewpoint, butalso incredible appreciation, yet in addition my group and my family, we giggle at it, yet I feel thisway like, "Gracious, all things considered, you know, we're a month from being ousted. I gotta go to work." Like, I actually have that in my mind. Oprah: You actually have that? The Rock: I actually have that in my mind, youknow, yet it keeps you grounded coincidentally. Better believe it, since that is the reason the most this andthe most that once more, it's awesome. Be that as it may, the option is the thing that I used to be. Oprah: And it likewise doesn't change the wayyou're wired on the grounds that I actually save toast. I do. I will save a toast instead of discard it. Also, I know there will be more toast,but I actually do on the grounds that there's something in me since when we were growing up, we hadto save it. You know, you weren't permitted to like throwfood away. In this way, that was a truly serious deal. In this way, here's the arrangement. You have now the... you get the greatest paychecks,you have this cash, approval, popularity, you didn't have that growing up. How would you bring up kids who have great sense,and are additionally kind when they have everything? Since a piece of what made you who you are,is having had that ousting notice and having not had everything. All in all, how would you do that, how are you planningto do that with your kids? The Rock: So, for instance, with our 18-year-olddaughter, it was truly significant that we share those accounts, share the narratives aboutbeing removed. Her mother's folks were workers who cameover from Cuba. It's significant that we've generally shared thosestories and furthermore, we live, we attempt and keep it as basic as we can. I live, we have a ranch in Virginia, happilyto state that I've moved my family here to Atlanta, so… Oprah: Yaay! The Rock: Place 30, 45 minutes away whereit's calm, yet in addition simply ensuring that we keep on imparting in the babiesand the children the estimation of $1 and what it implies and the estimation of food and continually saying howgrateful we are and the things that we're thankful for, particularly at that youthful age. Oprah: So, I need to know, how is successdifferent from the manner in which you envisioned it would be? The Rock: I never envisioned this. I, at one time when I was a child, I did feelin my heart and in my gut, that I was... that I thought, I think the world's going to hearfrom me. I don't have the foggiest idea how, however I do feel that way. In any case, I never thought in my psyche, it was thislevel of