Channing Tatum Quotes

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

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.

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

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.

I used to work at a puppy nursery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I learned to dance at quinceañeras - big [15th] birthday parties for Spanish girls. It was always funny to bring the white guy out [on the floor] and let him look like a fool.

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.

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

I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.

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

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

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.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

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

I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

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

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

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.