Joe Manganiello Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I’d rather be a liar than an asshole.

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.

Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it’s bad, then it’s 60.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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