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Why Edge Hasn't Done as much Acting as Other Pro Wrestlers:
"Well, I've never had an agent. I've always just kind of done my dealings with a handshake, and a signature eventually. So I've never, on my off days, gone pounding the pavement to get auditions or anything like that. I'd rather spend it at home. So in that respect I guess maybe I was a little bit lazy. But then I was able to shoot a movie through WWE last year and I had a really good time with it. I just realized that trying to maintain the wrestling schedule and shoot a movie where you're in 95% of the scenes was too much. So I told myself if I wasn't wrestling then that would be something that would definitely be an interesting option for me. When everything happened with my neck, it just seemed kind of like a natural thing that if it happened, great, if it didn't happen, great -- I'm okay either way. Now that I've been doing more of it, it's a lot of fun. I've had really good experiences with it. So will I go pounding pavement? Probably not, but that's just kind the way I'm wired so."
Any Plans to Return to WWE on TV:
"I don't know. I haven't heard anything and I don't know if I'd really want to at this point. I mean I still think it's too soon. To me it's one of those deals, I never wanted to be one of those guys that retires and then you see him every week after that. Initially I stuck around for a little bit to kind of get the culmination of the story with Christian, with the way we had to do it with, you know, my injury and everything, to kind of get that off and running. But I just personally feel like it would be too soon. Unless it was something, an idea that came across and I was like, "Oh okay yes, that's perfect." But I think they also know that too. I just need a break from it."
Whether He Plans to Drop the Edge Name:
"You know what? I'll never shed Edge, never want to. It's part of what got me to where I am now. That's how everyone knows me. But I have never introduced myself as Edge, to this day. I always introduce myself as Adam. That's never going to change, that's just always the way it's going to be. But I understand that that's how kind of a generation of people and kids have known me. So I think if a show has me on it, they would probably want to promote me as that. And I understand that and accept that. I guess I don't think you ever really shed something that's so ingrained with people. I don't think Rock will ever shed Rock. I think you know, Dwayne Johnson may be a part of it, but he's always going to be The Rock to people too. So that's kind of the way I look at it. And I'll have a working relationship with WWE, so I guess it works out for everybody really. It wasn't one of those things where I was trying to get away from wrestling to become an actor. I'd still be wrestling right now if my neck wouldn't cause a chance to be in a wheelchair. So it was one of those deals where it's like, "Okay, they're (unintelligible) and now acting opportunities are coming my way, "Okay cool, yes I'll do that." But that doesn't mean I'll ever be ashamed of Edge or ashamed of my career or try and shed that. I'm proud of that."
Whether He'd Be Open to Working Backstage for WWE
"I don't think so. I don't think so. I think to be that close to it and not be able to do it, at this point anyway, it doesn't seem like something I would enjoy. Maybe 10 years down the road, 5 years down the road, when I've moved far enough away from the reactions and things like that then maybe I could do it. But I also don't know if I would want to because that would involve just as much travel as I had before. And when I've been able to kind of pigeonhole my neck pain down to when I travel, my neck hurts. And I don't feel like hitting a different town every day anymore."
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