Paul Heyman Quotes

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

Someone who inspired me from the very first time I saw him was Eddie Guerrero.

I like those really multidimensional characters like Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt.

The Hardys were a huge influence on me becoming a wrestler. Not so much the moves themselves, but the concepts behind the moves: trying to be innovative and just being exciting.

Eddie Guerrero is my number one. He is the reason I am in the WWE - I wanted to be the female version of him.

The old-school Undertaker is my legacy. It's probably what I'm going to be remembered for.

It's not enough to play the old songs; that feels like being your own covers band or something. It's a big release to do new stuff.

I was that 16-year-old who loved WWE, and I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but I didn't understand why I had to be the bad guy. I wanted to be like Jeff Hardy - I wanted to be like Rey Mysterio - but I was told I had to be the guy who screamed terrible things about America and attack people from behind.

Before Dad passed, we talked so much about the Goldust character, what it grew into, and how much he was proud of it.

Goldust is a singular character. I don't need to be put with anybody.

I am not trying to be the next anyone - I am going to be the first Dolph Ziggler!

There's a lot of things I wouldn't have today if it wasn't for Curt Hennig. And he taught so many people.

A lot of what we do is built on trust, because basically, you go out there with a live mic on live television, and the WWE is putting their brand in your hands. Basically, they are entrusting you to go out there and to be a role model for children and keep everything that you are doing within the PG confines of this great brand.

Creative instinct is personal.

At one point, I left Mexico to continue my career globally, and a new star came about. He is known now as Myzteziz, but back then he was known as Mistico, and then Sin Cara when he joined WWE. I would have to say the fans, in their eyes, see a lot of similarities between us.

The family sitcom has been around forever, since the advent of television. I don't need to reinvent it. But if you take something and you do it in a way that you haven't necessarily seen before, that's right where I live.

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era.

Cockroaches can't survive me, and neither can Dean Ambrose.

When the script of 'Nine' came along, I saw that there's a possibility of making something that is genuinely new and entertaining at the same time.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

The way I'm doing it is I'm trying to think to myself, "Okay, I have the name Superman, and he's going to be a guy that deserves the name 'Superman.' I'm trying to forget about Krypton, about The Daily Planet what would I do if I was thinking it up?" I can do it any way at all..I can make him an Eskimo midget who's toothless and blind... I can do anything. It's difficult .

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

The WWE has a massive outreach on social media, and our fanbase is very vocal. So many young people watch the WWE, and I can turn around and say: "This also happens to me. Daily." I've been regarded as a very "controversial" figure, but in a setting like this, where I talk to young people, it helps.