The Rock on fame and gratitude

    by Tufail: Dwayne Johnson

    Dwayne Johnson shared why he refuses to complain about fame. He said: "People always ask me do you ever get tired of it? Tired of you can't go out, everything is back door through the kitchen. Hotels, it doesn't matter. Everything is a setup. You gotta call ahead and you can't go

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    So I love that you asked that because it reminds me of something that people always ask me. They say, do you ever get tired of it? Tired of you can't go out, everything is back door, through the kitchen, through the, you know, nothing is in through the front door, hotels, it doesn't matter. Everything is a setup, everything is, you got to call ahead and you can't go anywhere. Like malls and walks, that's all, that's not my cards anymore. And they said, do you get tired of that? And I went, no, never. And it's true because the alternative to that is going back to those days that you just bought up where I wasn't famous and no one cared. No one gave a shit. Not that my thought was, oh, I want people to care. Right. It's just at that time, that reminds me of a time where things were hard and I didn't have any money and I don't want to go back to that. Flea market Rolexes. Flea market, brother. But so I will never complain about fame.