Being a professional wrestler surely prepares you for any acting role in that we have to act on live television, so there's a lot of pressure put there.
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Being a pro wrestler can be kind of difficult sometimes. We have a perception about what we do - and I totally understand the perception, because we're a weekly episodic program, and we're having fun all the time, so people think that's kind of the most talented thing I could do.
Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
I've worked my entire career to try to broaden the perception of the WWE. A lot of folks think because we're so entertaining and oftentimes have such wild and well-defined characters that it's all we are. It has kind of been my life's work to tell the public that's not true.
You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from.
We really do have a lot of personality in WWE. You have to, to be in this job. You showcase a lot of personality.
Being part of WWE is beautiful. You're on the biggest stage of them all. You're living well; you're making good money, and the only flipside to that is that you're on the grind, and you've got to be committed. You've got to make sure to understand what being on the grind is.
Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.
Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.
I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.
I don't want to be the kind of wrestler that has to do it because he needs the money.
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