Top 22 Joe Manganiello Quotes

Acting was my first love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

Well, being 6′ 5′, pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.

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

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

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 was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don’t lift to look good; they’re lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

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

When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen – these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.