Stephanie McMahon Quotes

I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn't. It's about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.

I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.

There's so many great wrestlers in this sport who could probably work circles around me and it's amazing to see that, but I love being the kind of character who can take you on a roller coaster, make you smile and laugh.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

It doesn't matter if you're the best wrestler in the world and can do every move perfectly; if you don't connect with the crowd or sell well or have good promos, nobody cares.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

Wrestling is to go out there and perform and make people believe that either of the performers in the ring can win - either the bad guy or the good guy.

This isn't a competitive sport. Wrestling is not the NFL or the NHL. It's not really sports. It's entertainment. And in order to be entertaining, you have to create emotion. And you can't create emotion by simply having a wrestling match.

People think our business is this completely fictional world of big guys in tight clothes with no brains. That's not the way it is; this is a psychology-driven business. You have to take people on an emotional ride without using words.

People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.

Damien Sandow, he's a good entertainer. He keeps your attention.

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters.

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

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

I loved my time in Deep South Wrestling. We trained so hard and I got a crash course into the world of sports entertainment and pro wrestling.