Channing Tatum famous quotes

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
-- Channing Tatum

#Beautiful #Life Is Too Short #Missing

American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.
-- Channing Tatum

#Country #Thinking #Old Things

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.
-- Channing Tatum

#Soldier #Hollywood #Looks

I did kung fu from when I was nine to 13. You have to be really careful but you want to be able to make it look eventually as though it's just a part of you. So, you train over and over and over again.
-- Channing Tatum

#Looks #Want #Able

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.
-- Channing Tatum

#Divorce #Thinking #People

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.
-- Channing Tatum

#Directors #Doe #Action

There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.
-- Channing Tatum

#Artist #Dancer #Musician

I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.
-- Channing Tatum

#Thinking #Myopic #Avalanches

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fun #People #Wish

I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.
-- Channing Tatum

#Sports #Drama #School

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fighting #America #Political

I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used.
-- Channing Tatum

#Vintage #Years #Stuff

I was an 80's/90's baby so you went to the movie theater every weekend and there was one on, whether it was Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal or Schwarzenegger himself.
-- Channing Tatum

#Baby #Weekend #Schwarzenegger

I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.
-- Channing Tatum

#Daughter #Wall #Son

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."
-- Channing Tatum

#Grandpa #One Day #Burning

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."
-- Channing Tatum

#Notebook #Wife #Promise

Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.
-- Channing Tatum

#Real #Thinking #People

As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.
-- Channing Tatum

#Mistake #Thinking #Trying

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.
-- Channing Tatum

#Hunting #Deer #Shots

I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone - they fuelled my childhood. But now I don't think I'd like to do just action, I don't enjoy that.
-- Channing Tatum

#Thinking #Childhood #Age

If I can still be successful making films and no-one will ever know me, then that would be great. Because we (actors) just like to do what we do. People who are doing it for fame, I don't know if they ever get really successful.
-- Channing Tatum

#Successful #People #Would Be

All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing something.
-- Channing Tatum

#Drama #Elements #Action

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.
-- Channing Tatum

#Real #Guy #Actors

But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.
-- Channing Tatum

#Growing Up #Kids #Thinking

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.
-- Channing Tatum

#Sweet #Nice #Theory

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.
-- Channing Tatum

#Kids #Littles #Trouble

There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.
-- Channing Tatum

#Thinking #Careers #Giving

I love the supporting characters because you get to do more, to be totally honest. It's been sort of a theme with me. In Son of No One, I think I might have seven lines in the entire movie because everything is happening to my character.
-- Channing Tatum

#Character #Son #Thinking

If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.
-- Channing Tatum

#Lines #Want #Too Much

If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.
-- Channing Tatum

#People #Would Be #Roles

I've never been sent a lock of hair or anything like that, but I've gotten underwear with my face on it. That was weird.
-- Channing Tatum

#Hair #Underwear #Locks

I auditioned for a Pepsi commercial, and I got it, and that was incredibly fun. So I thought, Well, maybe I should try this acting thing .
-- Channing Tatum

#Fun #Trying #Acting

It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fighting #Use #Rings

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.
-- Channing Tatum

#Art #Athlete #Athletic

With my career in general, I feel like I'm finally getting to do the roles that I've always wanted to do. It's a slow build; you can't ever get the roles that you want in the beginning of your career because you don't have the buzz or the heat, or whatever the hell it is you need for the agents and the studios to be happy.
-- Channing Tatum

#Careers #Needs #Roles

I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there's just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.
-- Channing Tatum

#Wife #Tree #Peanut Butter

I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.
-- Channing Tatum

#Thinking #Views #People

Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fun #Bigs #Tricks

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.
-- Channing Tatum

#Believe #Games #World

I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and stuff that I'm not in and really make a good run at it as a production. I'm probably going to take a break from acting after a little while because I've enjoyed the developmental process so much. It helps you as an actor to learn story and to learn how to really nurture a script and work with a writer so you're not sitting there having to write it yourself and give notes.
-- Channing Tatum

#Running #Writing #Giving

I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I do want to direct at some point and start failing really early - start shooting videos and then commercials and then hopefully do some narrative.
-- Channing Tatum

#Get Better #Cameras #Video

Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.
-- Channing Tatum

#Moving #Fighting #People

I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.
-- Channing Tatum

#Writing #People #Wife

I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fun #Stupid #Reading

Modeling was successful for me. I didn't have to wait tables or anything like that, so that was nice. And I got to see the entire world.
-- Channing Tatum

#Nice #Successful #Waiting

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.
-- Channing Tatum

#People #Insane #Negative

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.
-- Channing Tatum

#Saws #Miami #Streets

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.
-- Channing Tatum

#Mirrors #Directors #Said

I don't like doing action movies. They're not that interesting... it's fun to do the physical element but the really fun stuff, like running into exploding buildings, they won't let you do. There's too much money riding on you not getting hurt. But yes, there's something exhilarating in just sitting on a beach with somebody having a real conversation. There's something exhilarating about being open and honest.
-- Channing Tatum

#Running #Beach #Hurt

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.
-- Channing Tatum

#Book #Character #Compromise

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fighting #Guy #Tough

I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.
-- Channing Tatum

#People #Car #Motorcycle

You don't need to like any of the characters, as long as you can understand why and where they're from. Why do you need to like any of the characters in the movie? That's not how life is. You don't like everyone that you meet.
-- Channing Tatum

#Character #Long #Needs

Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.
-- Channing Tatum

#Men #Female #Doe

I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.
-- Channing Tatum

#Jobs #Thinking #People

I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.
-- Channing Tatum

#Frustrated #Plot #Feels

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.
-- Channing Tatum

#Talking #Watches #Actors

No matter if you're a man, woman, cat, hamster, you will get lost in Matt Bomer's eyes. I don't know what they are made of outside of dreams and rainbows and amazingness but it truly doesn't matter. And when he sings. It's like God gave with both hands and then grew a third hand and graced him with more.
-- Channing Tatum

#Dream #Cat #Eye

I've got great genetics from parents, and I'm not moaning that I have such a hard life. Trust me; it's worked out so much more in the positive then the negative.
-- Channing Tatum

#Parent #Hard Life #Negative

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.
-- Channing Tatum

#Football #Roles #Necks

As much as you can love someone, is as much as you can hate someone. It goes in equal and opposite directions. Like if you love someone so much and they hurt you so bad, then that is as equal as to how much you can have rage for them.
-- Channing Tatum

#Hurt #Hate #Opposites

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fighting #Safe #Type

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.
-- Channing Tatum

#Writing #Rhyme

Playing a character that allows me to play around with some of the feelings I have inside of myself and explore them - and maybe put them to rest a little bit, or at least come to terms with them - feels successful to me. I think it's about believing in what you do.
-- Channing Tatum

#Believe #Character #Successful

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fighting #Men #Thinking

Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.
-- Channing Tatum

#Hurt #Escaping #Getting Hurt

I've loved Kevin McDonald's movies for a while and it was an amazing experience because he really wanted to do something different. It was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done, to wake up every single day and know that you're going to be freezing cold and wet, every single day, 10 times a day, and there's no getting away from it.
-- Channing Tatum

#Mcdonalds #Different #Wake Up

I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.
-- Channing Tatum

#Sports #Father #Fighting

My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.
-- Channing Tatum

#Parent #Way #Let Me

I want a career and the thing is you really have to love acting. I didn't just fall into it and it wasn't just something I was good at. I've had to really work at this. I've had to fall on my face time and time again. You get 'no' 99 per cent of the time and a 'yes' just once.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fall #Careers #Acting

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.
-- Channing Tatum

#Character #Important #Lucky

I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."
-- Channing Tatum

#Cousin #People #Sitting

The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.
-- Channing Tatum

#Real #Guitar #Soul

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.
-- Channing Tatum

#Character #Focus #Stories

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.
-- Channing Tatum

#School #Focus #Drug

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.
-- Channing Tatum

#Dream #Jobs #Want

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
-- Channing Tatum

#Mean #Successful #Bars

With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.
-- Channing Tatum

#Knowing #Dancing #Cameras

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.
-- Channing Tatum

#Matter #Action #Film

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
-- Channing Tatum

#Roles #Calling #Lawyer

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
-- Channing Tatum

#Sports #Dancing #Certain

I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move. When I'm not training, I get really round and soft.
-- Channing Tatum

#Moving #Training #Get Real

I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.
-- Channing Tatum

#Dream #Jumping #Flying

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.
-- Channing Tatum

#Young #Sentences #Ads

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fun #Real #Saint

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.
-- Channing Tatum

#Two #Mind #Acting

Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.
-- Channing Tatum

#Gun #Hunting #Stuff

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.
-- Channing Tatum

#Mirrors #Directors #Dresses

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
-- Channing Tatum

#Football #Athlete #Player

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
-- Channing Tatum

#Years #Two #Levels

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
-- Channing Tatum

#Political #Upset #Soldier

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.
-- Channing Tatum

#Careers #Ideas #People

I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.
-- Channing Tatum

#Sorry #Writing #Fighting

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.
-- Channing Tatum

#Fighting #Feet #Missing

I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.
-- Channing Tatum

#Girl #Night #Thinking

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
-- Channing Tatum

#Balance #Kind #Film

I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We're just like, 'What can we go get into this weekend?' Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It's all memories.
-- Channing Tatum

#Memories #Believe #Weekend

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.
-- Channing Tatum

#New York #Speed #Faster

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.
-- Channing Tatum

#Girl #Florida #Dancing

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.
-- Channing Tatum

#Regret #Character #Thinking