Dwayne Johnson Dishes About The Tooth Fairy
Dwayne Johnson is no longer The Rock he is a movie star. He has left the WWE behind to pursue a movie career. Personally, I think he’s a great actor and will be able to pull this off. He recently sat down with Parade and talked about the Tooth Fairy (which is also the movie that he is starring in), his parents and if his daughter still believes.
On his Tooth Fairy memories: “I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money. Now, with inflation, I guess maybe the price has gone up and sometimes there’s more money under the pillow, but then sometimes it can be a treat, something cool. What if the Tooth Fairy left an iPod? That would be cool wouldn’t it?”
On how his parents pulled it off: “Even when times were tough, they really did a wonderful job of keeping the notion alive of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and The Tooth Fairy, the spirit of what that means — giving and giving back. I was really fortunate to have a mom and dad in my life who believed in my own potential, even when I didn’t see it at that point. Now, I can look back and reflect and be grateful for those people in my life.”
On how his daughter still believes: “I want to be careful what I say because she might just read this. Let’s put it this way. I have been in the room when the Tooth Fairy has taken a tooth from under her pillow, but then I walked out the room very quickly because I didn’t want to look at the Tooth Fairy. I got scared.”
What keeps him going: “I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago and I’ve never forgotten it, ‘Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.’ So I’ll always be hungry in some way, driven and motivated to get what I want.”
[Images by Patricia Schlein/WENN.com]
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January 21st, 2010 at 9:30 am
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