Edge Quotes

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I'm not as extreme in real life as I am in the ring or on television.

They say the best wrestling gimmicks are a heightened version of yourself and that's me!

There's not too much Edge in Adam Copeland, but there's a little bit of my sarcasm and my sense of humor, I guess, but I'm not a sleazy, raving maniac like the character of Edge could be.

When the lights in the arena turn on, I'm Mickie James all the time.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

You don't become the character.

I became acutely aware of how important it is to separate the difference between who you are and who the character you're playing is.

You have to have a character; you have to build your character. If you understand the pro wrestling scheme of things, then you understand what the promoting is. These guys are friendly backstage, but as soon as the cameras turn on, it's a whole different story: you become that character.

I think that the two worlds of fashion and acting world have a lot of common things, because we all build a character.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

We didn't roll credits after 'Monday Night Raw.' You know, it didn't say, 'Stone Cold Steve Austin played by Steve Austin,' so all of a sudden people think that's who and what you are 24/7, you know, 365 days a year.

I'm firmly entrenched in the Seth Rollins character. It is so close to who I am as a person, we're almost overtly intertwined.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

A lot of people ask me, like, how the characters are different between Nitro and Morrison and Mundo, and the biggest difference is just the names. Like, wrestlers are usually a version of yourself, and the versions of myself haven't really changed that much.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.