Nikki Bella Quotes

On the 'SmackDown' side, A.J. Styles really has been phenomenal.

It was a lot of fun working with Braun Strowman.

Sometimes - and I don't mean it disrespectfully - the easiest people to work in the wrestling business are the people in the locker room.

Triple H is very hands-on and approachable. My whole 'Glorious' song is because of Triple H. Before I even signed my contract, we discussed what I wanted to do and what he felt like I could do. It's been a real joy working for him.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

We really do have a lot of personality in WWE. You have to, to be in this job. You showcase a lot of personality.

It's the beauty of WWE. We use all our platforms to cross-promote each other and vice versa.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

WWE is a company that produces fiction. It's a soap opera that runs 52 weeks a year without reruns.

I've never dealt with really anything negative in the WWE as a whole, in the locker room, anything.

All I can say is that WWE and its entire machinery has been nothing but a joy to work with. I'm not just saying that because I'm paid to or that I'm a member of the company. I have criticized WWE in the past, but I am still a big fan of the product.

When I am on 'Raw' and 'Smackdown,' I try to make the best of it.

In comic books, every character exists in this comic book world, and the wrestlers were the same thing. They were responsible for creating that world and putting it out there - having the confidence to go forward and do that and behave in a certain way.

I'm going to call WWE like I call everything. Yes, I'm going to be passionate. Yes, I'm going to be excited, but at the same time, I'm hoping to get better as a storyteller, and I'm hoping to complement the people I work with who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.

The creative autonomy in 'Lucha Underground' is more than I felt in WWE. There is more willingness from the creative and production team to listen to input from the wrestlers in 'Lucha Underground.'

In Total Nonstop Action, individual wrestlers have a lot more freedom to artistically express themselves versus WWE.

That's kind of the beauty of WWE, is everyone's got their own story, they all have their own path in getting here. It's just a very diverse and unique locker room.

'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!

That's what we do in WWE: we tell stories.

I literally view wrestling as the time when I was playing with action figures. You can make anything out of it. You can make it be fun.

Ring of Honor always has a great general idea of what they think I need, and generally, we agree pretty quickly on what I want to do.

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I'm so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

I'm out there to produce the best content - The most creative content I can do and express myself through wrestling.

As a writer for six years, I wrote my own TV, which, I was the only person in the WWE that could probably honestly say, since day one in NXT, they wrote their own material.