Joe Manganiello Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Talent falls under the category of something that no one has any control over.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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'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'd rather be a liar than an asshole.

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

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

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.

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.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

In the age of camera phones and screenshots and Twitter ... At the end of the day, I want to share my life with somebody, you know? I want picture albums. I want to look back at our time together. And I also want kids. And if you want kids, then you want marriage.

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

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

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

Acting was my first love.