Joe Manganiello famous quotes

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Way #Lost #Feels

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Real #Thinking #Track

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Drama #School #Names

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

#Men #Wife #Watches

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

#Acting

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

#Book #Kids #Crowds

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Fit #Misfits #Grew Up

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

#Teeth #Fans #Necklaces

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Home #Men #Roots

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Men #He Man

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

#Mean #Class #Tree

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Mean #Way #Skinny

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

#Mean #Kids #Littles

Acting was my first love.
-- Joe Manganiello

#First Love #Acting #Firsts

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Coffee #People #Parks

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

#Best Love #House #Advice

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

#Blood #Giants #Kind

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Teacher #Kids #Artist

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Dad #Athlete #Son

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Real #Blood #Training

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

#Halloween #Kids #Dark

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

#Workout #Trying #Adjusting

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

#Drama #Together #Carnegie

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Sports #College #Play

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Blood #Guy #Athletic

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

#Study #Werewolf #Tendencies

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

#Wake Up #Gym

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

#Athlete #Trying #Looks

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

#Thinking #Athletic #Intellectual

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Kids #Clubs #Want

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

#Thinking #Males #Objectification

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Sex #Men #Thinking

Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Sex #Our Relationship #Accounts

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.
-- Joe Manganiello

#Book #Character #Mad