Words matter. These are the best Matt McGorry Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can’t even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.
I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors’ too, are probably at camp or school plays where you get to have great range. At camp, I remember getting to play a 50-year-old man.
A place of freedom is the best place to have the most creativity.
I understand that in TV, people like likable people. In film, you can get away with playing a terrible person. In TV, you’re in people’s homes every week.
I’d feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a little.
The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.
The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.
When you’re used to being at a point where you’re deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn’t see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.
I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
I know some people who are like, ‘I love fitness,’ and I feel like if you have to say that, you’re still in the romance stage. I’m in the stage where I’ve been married to it for 60 years, and I don’t think I’ll ever get a divorce.
I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish men.
I wasn’t athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.
I have a background in erotic dancing, but that’s mostly just – it’s not professional, it’s just amateur.
I tend to be shy in asking people for photos – other actors that I really like and admire.
My character on ‘Orange is the New Black’ is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn’t be opposed to doing that for a role one day.
I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry’s is my go-to. I like as many things in there as possible.
For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces. Even when it’s a crazy character, grounded comedy resonates more with people because it doesn’t look like you’re watching someone do vaudeville. No offense to vaudeville.
I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.
I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.
I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I’ve also been learning to try and embrace that.
