Chris Jericho Quotes

I have this mistress: show business.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

I hate show business.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

Show business is my life.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.

I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.

There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.