Thank you, Oprah, for having me. Thank you guys. So your father was very strict. Now here's a thing, you've gone one on one with some fierce competitors in the ring, right? But now you were in one of the scariest situations any man can be in raising three daughters. Yes, yeah, yes, extremely scary. 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 the small capacity in which he was capable of. So I learned from that, and so with my daughters, I want to be as full and as present with the love that I give them. Present? yes, that's what we were 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, 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 daughters 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 eighteen years old, her name is Simone. Jasmine, who just turned four, maybe Tiana, thank you, who is getting ready to turn two, and I am, as I told my eighteen-year-old daughter, Simone. I said I love you, I'm going to tell you, I love you every day. I'm going to text you. So you’re one of those who say the words out loud? Yes, because I didn’t get that. And I look at you, I love you, and I'm going to 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, but you don't have to like it's OK, it's without condition, it’s it’s unconditional love. And I also want to teach my daughters the value of hard work. More importantly, I want to teach my daughters the value of being kind and how important that is. Well, you know, I read that your father, you used to watch him in training, and he would say, if I'm going to get up at six A.M, you're going to get up at six A.M, So, what do you think you've 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 five, five thirty in the morning, and he would say, if I get up, you're going to get up too. He would drag me to the gym, by the way, I'm five years old, and he would drag me to the gym, and 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 too, that, regardless of what you do in life and where you go, respect is going to 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 daughters 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? I was right there, right there, I mean right there. Yes, I mean, you were right there, Yeah, 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 two. I was once married, and now I'm happily married. Lauren is back there. We’ve known each other for thirteen years now, but I have, it 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 going to be the one, and you want to get married and my first marriage didn't work out. But then the birth of a child, and what that does, and the lens perspective that just shifts, and it just gives me a new, profound respect for, again, their moms, as.. So, it didn't work out with the marriage, but then she became your business partner, your first marriage? She did, yes, yes, You still are. We still are, so, my first, my ex-wife, Danny, we, the marriage didn’t work out. And it was just one of those things where it wasn't an ugly divorce, it was just, marriage wasn't in our cards. We’re 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. I know you didn't grow up with a lot of money. And I read the story about, when, I think you were fifteen, and there was an eviction notice on the door and how that, was made a big impression on you it, right? It did, yes. Now you’re one of the highest paid actors in the world. Thank you. I do all right, thank you. You do all right. And does, does that title, the sexiest man alive? the highest paid in the..., do all those, what do those titles mean if anything? You're the greatest, you're the most popular, you're the most followed, you're the most, the most, the most most. It's great for the ego[ˈiːɡoʊ]. It's wonderful, kidding. Yeah, the better question is, how do you keep your ego in check when all of that is happening around. Sure, very important. People have around me, and how important that is... Do you have anybody who can tell you the truth at this point? Yeah, she's called my wife, yes. Okay. Lauren can tell you the truth? Yes, Lauren can 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 time, say, well, I'm not quite too 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’m so grateful to be in the position of man. And I never take anything for granted, I try... Aren’t you glad 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 fourteen 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 one hundred and eighty dollars a week. A week? A week. And that 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[ˈsɛmənəl] moment for me, because I felt like, I never want to be in this position again. What can I do? So, at fourteen 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 that's what I'm going to do, do what my dad taught me, and these other heroes, I'm going to go build my body, so we're never evicted again. But being evicted, by the way, has, 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 we're a month away from being evicted. I gotta go to work, like, I still have that in my head, I still have that my head, you know, but it keeps you grounded, by the way. Yeah. Yeah, because that's why the most this and the most that again, it's wonderful. But the alternative is what I once was.
ego[ˈiːɡoʊ]n.自我;自尊
keep your ego in check保持你的自我在控制中
evict[ɪˈvɪkt]vt.依法驱逐(房客等);依法收回(房屋等)
seminal[ˈsɛmənəl]adj.种子的,精液的;升值的
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