“It was always important for me not to be pigeonholed as a cruiserweigh...” — Austin Aries Quote

It was always important for me not to be pigeonholed as a cruiserweight-style wrestler.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.

Go fail or succeed on your own merits, be your own man.

I battle with things like depression in my life, I battle with things like anxiety, I battle with things like attention deficit disorder, and I ignored them all.

Nobody walks through life as a pure babyface per se or a pure heel, we all have shades of grey, and there's some days we're a little better than others, and some days we're a little more ornery. And I think that I just embody that.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into the guy who's against everything.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

It's important to me to keep testing myself in life so that I don't get pigeonholed.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.