Apr 1, 1980 - Present
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Before I was married, before I was with my wife, I was traveling with Ric Flair and women were everywhere. It was crazy. The lifestyle he leads, he\'s the wheelin\', dealin\', kiss-stealin\' son of a gun. He\'s Ric Flair and there\'s no one like him, there won\'t ever be another like him in the wrestling world again.
Why can\'t I be naked baby?!
The key is dictating what the fans do rather than letting them dictate what you do.
I\'m going to the main event of Wrestlemania! Where\'re you going?
Roddy how many times have you won a World Championship?
No one will match up to Ric Flair and how he lives.
Someone said DX over here? It was this dipshit with the cowboy hat over here.
Learning from the best, you will eventually become the best if you have the talent already, if you have that potential.
You want to know why I am the perfect champion? Because you can take the strength of John Cena; the intelligence of Triple H; the desire of Cena; the athleticism of Triple H; the determination of Cena; the ruthlessness of Triple H... and if you combine these attributes into one person, you get Randy Orton. The only difference is that I have one thing that neither Cena nor Triple H has: the WWE Championship.
Things in the ring are definitely bigger, so that you can see them. But the movie world is completely different, and you have to hone things down because when that camera is so tight on you and so intimate and right up in your face, it\'s going to catch every little thing that you give it, and it\'s very easy to overdo it.
I think the best advice I got is that acting isn\'t acting - you just want to just be, you want to be just real, be in the moment and react.
I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring. From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what\'s going on inside that guy\'s head.
You think you\'re funny! You think you\'re funny Cena, huh? The only pose you\'re going to be doing tonight is lying on your back with me on top!
Learning from my mistakes at the same time being criticized by Triple H and Ric Flair made me what I am today.
Ric Flair, you can tell all these people that I\'m full of it for calling myself the Legend Killer? Well, I think you\'re full of it for coming out here every Monday and telling the whole world that Triple H is the best wrestler in the world today. I know it\'s not true, I\'m pretty sure all these people know it\'s not true and Ric Flair, I know that deep down inside your heart, you know it\'s not true either which is why it\'s so tragic to see what you\'ve become. This generation is gonna remember Ric Flair for kissing Triple H\'s ass!
As long as the fans were happy, I knew I\'d had a good night, and it didn\'t really matter what anuone else thought.
The pressure was always there, but I feel like it was almost invisible to me. I had too much going on once I got rolling with Evolution and won my first title. They say the cream rises to the top, and I felt like the cream. I rose to the top real quick, and I was surrounded by Triple H, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, these guys who were very well respected in the profession, and they wanted to work with me.
I\'m The Legend Killer, Shawn! Why? \'Cause I kill Legends!
I\'ve been around a long time, and it seemed for the longest time like I was the young guy. Now, all of a sudden, I\'ve got fans with beards telling me, \"I used to watch you when I was a kid.\" So, I don\'t know what happened to all those years, but the little bit I do remember? It was definitely a fun ride.
When I walk to the ring, I hear voices telling me what to do and sometimes it\'s not the right thing, but it\'s definitely damn entertaining.
Wrestling is my first love.
The fact that the WWE is so involved in anti-bullying, it\'s really an honor to be involved with them.
Guys like Jack Lanza, Pat Patterson, Bruce Pritchard, Tom Pritchard - those guys all helped me get a tryout. And I\'d never been in the ring, so they went on a lot of faith and signed me and thought that they could help mold me into a WWE superstar. And now I\'m glad they did, because that was a big turning point in my life.
I want to go out there and try as hard as I can to be the best in that ring. And for me, that doesn\'t mean cutting flips and cartwheels and not selling punches.
Doing these movies I\'ve done with WWE, it\'s a different pace. It\'s a lot of hurry up and wait, a lot of sitting around and like the day of the pay-per-view, when you\'re thinking about what you can do, and then you get the payoff, the reward, that night. It\'s just a different animal.
Being born into the business, I had the connections. A lot of guys aspire to be professional wrestlers, but you need to get trained the right way. And then, once you\'re trained, you need to get to that next level, and really, the WWE is the only place to do it.
At times, I\'ll watch a cruiserweight match, and I\'m very impressed at how they limit themselves with all of the acrobatics, but every once in a while, you\'ll see a match where they\'re doing things I couldn\'t dream of doing, but you get lost because there\'s so much.
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.
I can\'t say I\'m confident in my abilities as an actor.
I\'m used to throwing my body around. I\'m used to taking a punch.