Wade Barrett Quotes

As WWE Superstars, we want to have confidence and stand strong in the ring.

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.

Brock Lesnar and I have a very unique chemistry. It works. It's worked since 2002; it will continue to work any time we are presented together.

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

I play a character in the WWE and everybody hates my character. I'm the evil villain bad guy. Whenever people meet me, they're like, 'Wow, you're such a nice guy. We never expected that.'

I definitely miss parts of wrestling like having matches, especially when I watch the product.

I might be the only guy in WWE who isn't acting ever.

I once said that I never wanted to be a good guy or the 'baby face,' as we call it in the wrestling business. But you know, it is what it is, and I'll be whatever they want me to be. At the end of the day, we work for the WWE fans.

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

I remember my agent calling and saying 'this may be really weird, but would you have any interest in WWE?' I was like, 'isn't that wrestling? And the last time I saw a WWE match was in my women's studies class at the University of Michigan, and they picked it apart. But she implored me to watch, and instantly I was interested.

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

WWE definitely gives you the forum, the stage to do different things and see what works. That's the cool thing about being in front of a live audience every single week in WWE. You get instant feedback.

At one point when we recorded 'Fighting with My Family' at the Staples Center it was an incredible feeling and I loved it but I was playing AJ Lee and I wanted it to be me.

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

Performing for WWE did so much for me in terms of teaching me how to act and doing fighting scenes.

WWE prepares you for so much other stuff in entertainment.

I took the antiquated, outdated, passe role of the wrestling manager, and I upgraded it into the upper echelon of sports entertainment to be known as an advocate.

Aleister Black - we've battled in the past, across the world. I've enjoyed his build, to watch his evolution as well.

Diesel coming down with shades, being seven feet tall with an all-black outfit on and the gloves; The Rock when he was wearing $800 Versace shirts; and Stone Cold, obviously, with the way he carried himself and the way he spoke and holding the microphone - these are the things that made me want to become a pro wrestler.

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.

I think because of 'Total Divas,' people have gotten to know who we are and kind of see more of the personality of the divas.

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.

I've never been a politics guy in wrestling; I'm just someone who came out and worked.

The key to WWE's success and longevity is that they are, as modern and as relevant as the company may be in modern social media and platforms and contemporary distribution, the company is still built around old-school promotion. Who are these two fighters? Why are they wrestling? And why should I pay to see it?

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.