Quotes by Matt Mcgorry - Page 1

Did people waste time before the internet existed?
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
People
Waste
Wasting Time
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I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Magic
Performing
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I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Chelsea
Native
New Yorker
Yorker
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It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Nice Guy
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I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a little.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Bunch
Dudes
Sticking
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I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Amateur
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I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things in there as possible.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Ben
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I honestly love any good chick flick, as long as it's a good movie or pretty funny. 'Love Actually' is a no-brainer.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Good Movie
No Brainer
Funny Love Good
Chick
Flick
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The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Fitness
Goal
Important
Mind
Achieving
Before
Part
Important Part
Mental
Physical
The Most Important
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I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Long
Relax
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Brotherhood
Bunch
Jewish
Men Me New
Magicians
Member
Youngest
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In 2010, I was ranked top 50 in the deadlift in three different weight classes, and I won my first natural bodybuilding competition.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Bodybuilding
Competition
Classes
Ranked
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Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Fully
Invested
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
People Person Understand
Homes
Likable
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There's some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day, depending on the style and volume of it, it can be too much.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Likes
Validation
Volume
Depending
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We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Encouragement
Careers
Support
Build
Men Women Society
Women Are
Boy
Create
Women Men Society
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Bodybuilding
Competition
Decade
Entrenched
Personal Trainer
Trainer
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I've had to realize I need to distance myself a bit from relying on the feedback. I think it's wonderful but can also be poison. You don't want to buy into it too much.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Distance
Poison
Thinking
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Body Fat
Orange
Fat
Requires
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Bunch
Eighth Grade
Prize
Self Conscious
Contest
Eighth
Grade
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It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Quirky
Bland
Typical
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Arrogant
Insecure
Possibility
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Embrace
Sense Of Humor
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I love the stuff that makes you laugh and cry. It kind of sucker-punches you a little bit. That's the thing that most interests me as a performer, in addition to telling the most captivating story.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Captivating
Cry
Addition
Love Me Laugh
Performer
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At some point, you're just happy to be a working actor, but to be able to do it with people you really love and enjoy spending time with, it's just such a rare thing. You hear so many horror stories.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Spending Time
Love Time People
Rare
Rare Thing
Working Actor
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Range
School Plays
Camp
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Body Fat
Pounds
Veins
Fat
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Fitness
Divorce
Romance
Love People Feel
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It's rewarding for me to have people know me as two very different characters. I think when you see people as one character, you expect that they are like that character. So it's nice to be able to throw people for a loop a little bit.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Character
Nice
Thinking
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As for my personal style, I like comfort a lot, like jeans and T-shirts. Having been a trainer for so long, I spend a lot of my days in tank tops, shorts, and T-shirts. Still, I do like the occasions where I get to wear suits and make that a thing.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Comfort
Jeans
Personal Style
Shorts
Tank
Tops
Trainer
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Bodybuilding
Discipline
Hardest Thing
How Far
Measurable
Push
Switch
The Hardest Thing
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The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Dull
Sake
Emphasize
Invested
Sympathize
Wears
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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.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Faces
Grounded
Offense
Preference
Psychology
Vaudeville
Character Me Look
Character Look Me
Just Kind
Resonates
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I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit. Part of me thinks that's maybe the effect of being on two hit shows. I like to think that maybe it's more: You do the things you do, and you do the best you can, and that's all you can hope for, and don't worry too much if it's not it.
Matt Mcgorry / Actor
Careers
Thinking
Two
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