Joe Manganiello Quotes

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I have had a lifetime love affair with all types of dance. Pole dancing was always just for fun until we had a pole installed at 'The Girls Next Door' house, then we started taking it a bit more seriously and got into using it for exercise.

Every actor is a character actor.

I have always been into all kinds of sports, and have blended acting with sports.

I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I really love being a character actor.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

I do play villains.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

I love sports and I love sports movies.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture!