Matt McGorry

Dating is sort of like auditioning. Even on your worst day, if you're right for the role, you're going to get another…

— Matt McGorry

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

— Matt McGorry

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

— Matt McGorry

My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I…

— Matt McGorry

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…

— Matt McGorry

For me, my preference for comedy is grounding it in the psychology of the character, and not just kind of making faces.…

— Matt McGorry

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind…

— Matt McGorry

There's some part of me, as an actor, that likes attention and validation, but on any given day, depending on the style…

— Matt McGorry

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

— Matt McGorry

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as…

— Matt McGorry

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily…

— Matt McGorry

I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into…

— Matt McGorry

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

As for my personal style, I like comfort a lot, like jeans and T-shirts. Having been a trainer for so long, I…

— Matt McGorry

I feel like my early experiences of acting, and I think a lot of other actors' too, are probably at camp or…

— Matt McGorry

I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor…

— Matt McGorry

I understand that in TV, people like likable people. In film, you can get away with playing a terrible person. In TV,…

— Matt McGorry

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

— Matt McGorry

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

I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still…

— Matt McGorry

It's rewarding for me to have people know me as two very different characters. I think when you see people as one…

— Matt McGorry

I was the youngest member of the New York International Brotherhood of Magicians. It was me and a bunch of 60-year-old Jewish…

— Matt McGorry

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that…

— Matt McGorry

The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the…

— Matt McGorry

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school…

— Matt McGorry