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

- Joe Manganiello

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

- Joe Manganiello

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

- Joe Manganiello

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

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

Acting was my first love.

- Joe Manganiello

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.

- Joe Manganiello

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Joe Manganiello

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

- Joe Manganiello

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

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

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

- Joe Manganiello

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

- Joe Manganiello

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

- Joe Manganiello

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.

- Joe Manganiello