Joe Manganiello Quotes

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.

I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.

I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it... I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.

I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.

The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts.

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

When I'm training for 'True Blood,' I don't eat any sugar except for some fruit here and there. So it's no sugar, no bread, no real carbs all day.

I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

Acting was my first love.

When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.

I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.

Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.

I am kind of giant … on (the True Blood) set.

I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

So listen, man, "weird" is my middle name. I'm ready for anything. The weirder, the better.

I'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.

I'm an actor that cares.

There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

The reason I couldn't pay my rent was because I was one of the worst drinkers you'd ever seen in your life.

I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.