Quotes

Joe: (on what he does around New York) “I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.”

Joe: (on his character, Brad, on How I Met Your Mother) “CBS had originally wanted another actor to play Brad, but the writers and producers convinced them to give me the part instead. I was only slated to shoot one episode, but they liked what I was doing so much that they rewrote the character of Brad in the next episode for me, from there they kept inviting me back for more and giving me funnier stuff to do.”

Joe: (on his relationship with the crew of How I Met Your Mother) “I joke with them that I’m like the low income kid who gets bussed in to go to their high school.”

Joe: (on having any personal obsessions that he gets teased about) “I can get a little Howard Hughes about germs sometimes… I just got back from New York and touching things like subway rails and then eating can freak me out a little bit.”

Joe:(on how he got involved in the play, Skirts & Flirts) “I shot an episode of Jake in Progress with John Stamos a few years back and the casting people recommended me to the writer of Skirts & Flirts, Gloria Calderon Kellett, who then wrote a part for me in her play… it turned out that she was also a writer on How I Met Your Mother.”

Joe: on how he got started with acting) “We had a TV studio in high school and I would write, produce, and act in movies with my friends… I then auditioned for “Oklahoma” my senior year and got the part of Jud… then I got into CMU and the rest is history!”

Joe: (on if he was a Flash Thompson or a Peter Parker in high school) “I got picked on a lot in elementary school until my father told me to hit back… I never picked on kids but after that incident, I never let anyone mess with me again… In high school I was the jock that defended the skater kids from the other jocks that picked on them… so I was actually kind of the “Anti-Flash.”"

Joe: (on True Blood nudity) “You get cast as a werewolf or a shapeshifter on True Blood you pretty much know you are going to get naked.”

Joe: (on his height) “I am kind of giant … on (the True Blood) set.”

Joe: (on his “True Blood” wolf) “My wolf is named is Thunder. He is a golden coloured Timber wolf, he’s huge and got this crazy yellow eyes. He is the grouchiest wolf and growls at all the other wolves.”