Joe Manganiello Quotes

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

I don't think I've ever been called up for an action film with a male lead - which is a shame. I'd love to take on Bond.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

I usually play tough guys and stuff like that.

I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.

I can watch 'Mission: Impossible' all day every day. Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is so hot.

The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.

As for action, yes 'Wanted' was a success in the action genre. But not to the extent of 'Dabangg.'

I don't know if I necessarily fit in the action-thriller genre, but I'd love to do something where I could actually kick some butt and then tell a few jokes. That would be awesome! That would be my dream job.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

I would say that my favorite action film is the 'Die Hard's. They're kind of perfect, I think.

When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.

I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.

Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on '24,' but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he's a jerk who can beat up bad people.

I'd love to do 'The Expendables.' It's just a kick in the pants.

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

To be running away from explosions with Harrison Ford, you know, that's pretty great.

I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.