"I thank you, all of you at home. You are the reason I'm getting this," Johnson said in his acceptance speech. "I want to share a really quick lesson with you guys, I've learned the most powerful thing we can be is ourselves."He explained how he found professional success, despite being seen as off-type for Hollywood early in his career. "We are still that little kid just aspiring to be something better, aspiring to be important. When I first got to Hollywood, Hollywood they didn't know what the hell to do with me. I mean I was half black, half Samoan, six-foot-four, 275-pound pro wrestler," Johnson said. "I was told at that time you've got to be a certain way, you've got to drop some weight, you've got to be somebody different, you've got to stop working out, stop doing the things that I love, you've got to stop calling yourself 'The Rock.' For years I bought into it because you think, 'Oh, that's what I'm supposed to do and I was miserable doing that. I made a choice that I wasn't going to conform to Hollywood, Hollywood was going to conform to me." He ended with: "When I was 15, I heard a quote and I'll never forget it, "It's nRead More – Source
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