The guy who ad-libbed that famous line (which should have made it's way onto a poster at some point) is "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, the World Wrestling Federation legend. Roddy left the WWF at his peak in 1988 to parlay his popularity into a Hollywood career. Don't ask me why They Live was a box office bomb, and The Scorpion King solidified Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's position in Tinseltown... that's just the nature of The Ring.
Roddy starred in two films the year he left wrestling. One of them was this:
Those frog costumes are incredible.
But, by 1992, Roddy was back in the Royal Rumble to fight for the big belt. Watch his expert beef-libbing here:
And there will probably always be a place for Roddy in the world of Wrestling. His website tells me that he hosted WWE RAW at the Garden just last week. After the premiere of Darren Aronofsky's recent stunner The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke said he only felt like they had succeeded the moment he saw Rowdy Roddy Piper in tears after the film.
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