“It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be ...” — Michael Shannon Quote

“It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.”

“Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.”

“It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.”

“I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.”

“I'm Braun Strowman. You can't put me in a category with anyone. I'm my own entity - there's nobody else like me - so I'm going to continue going out there to be Braun. I'm no good guy or bad guy, I'm Braun.”

“The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.”