Joe Manganiello's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Acting was my first love.

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

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

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

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.