The Miz Quotes

I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.

If Okada, if a Tanahashi, Michael Elgin, The Young Bucks, if they want to have a, the place they can find me is the WWE. I'm going to be busy making my way to the top of that food chain.

I realized, statistically, the chances of me getting to the WWE and being very successful were very slim. I always hoped it would happen for me.

WWE, in the back of my mind, was always the dream job, and most people don't get their dream jobs.

If I aspire to be the king of WWE, one day if I keep working at it, I will be the king of WWE.

I would watch 'the Kardashians' and think, I could do that.

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.

I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you're older?' I felt pressured, and that always kind of deterred me.

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

I would love to wrestle at WrestleMania! And who knows, if the time is ever right and the moment calls for it, it would be a dream come true for me.

I told my mom: I said, 'Mom, I'm going to try out for WWE.' Her response was, 'The heck you are!' She was like, 'You are not doing that!' So I had to try out without her knowing, but now she's, like, the biggest supporter and so proud of me.

I've done so much for the WWE. Everything I've done, any movie I've done, any notoriety I have, it's because of them.

Many people ask me about WWE and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now. I will not go. I want to make New Japan Pro-Wrestling bigger.

After making repeated attempts to change my career trajectory and having those efforts turned down, my passion for playing the role of a WWE Superstar went away.

Wrestling was a part-time thing and I was starving doing it. When the opportunity came up to wrestle with WWE and come to the states, it was a no-brainer.

My mom was like, 'What did I do as a mom for you to want to become a wrestler?' They just didn't understand, and it's really hard to explain what made me love wrestling so much. There's something about it that made me fall in love, and ever since I laid my eyes on it, I knew I wanted to be a professional wrestler in the WWE.

I wanted to be a part of WWE and part of NXT first, as, if I went to 'Raw' or 'SmackDown' right away, I would always wonder what NXT would have been like.

So many go into the business just to be famous, not because they are passionate about their craft.

I'd like to be a tag titleholder, I'd like to be the WWE champion, but more than anything, I want to make guys leaders.

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.

I wasn't trying to be the next Hulk Hogan. I was trying to be the next Vince McMahon.

If you're in the WWE, you're a superstar.

In a perfect world, I'd end up at NXT.

Miz and I grew up a couple of minutes apart in the Cleveland area and both had dreams of being WWE Superstars and being the best.