Joe Manganiello Quotes
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We've all had those phone conversations. Things are heated, you're in a position where you're gonna say something nasty. Instead, you say, "Oh, I've got that thing in the oven." Lie. Get off the phone. Don't perpetuate a bad situation.
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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.
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I'd rather be a liar than an asshole.
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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.
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I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
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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.
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I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.
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I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.
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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.
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Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
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Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.
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I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.
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I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
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Every weekend the drama department would have parties. The 20 hot girls on campus? All of them were in the drama dept. So we'd have somebody standing guard at the door to keep all the computer science guys out. We had to guard our women at all times.
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Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
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I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.
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I actually met Carrie Fisher a couple of years ago. When I told her that she was my first crush, she insisted that we get married and have a reality show about it. I'm lucky to have made it out of that weekend without getting married.
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I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.
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I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.
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I wanted to work with somebody who seemed like he came from the same place that I did, which is that total immersion and learning about the world around, from this very gritty, dark side, and had access to that.
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I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.
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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.
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Acting was my first love.
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American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
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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.
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I quit because that thing inside of me that was driving me to drink that way was causing me so much pain that I was starting to get afraid for my own life, and my own health. It wasn't necessarily one instance. It was a lot that had piled up.
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I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
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I am kind of giant … on (the True Blood) set.
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The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'
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I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.
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