Matt McGorry

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.”

“I am all about the complicated ice cream. Ben & Jerry's is my go-to. I like as many things in there as possible.”

“The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.”

“I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.”

“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 got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.”

“It's nice being liked for playing the nice guy, but it's also fun to be the funny one.”

“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 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 have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.”

“I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a little.”

“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.”

“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 honestly love any good chick flick, as long as it's a good movie or pretty funny. 'Love Actually' is a no-brainer.”

“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.”