Channing Tatum Quotes

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

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.

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

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.

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

Everyone's a nerd inside. I don't care how cool you are.

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.

Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.

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.

Just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

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

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.

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.

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

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

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

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

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

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

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.

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

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.

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

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.

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

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

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

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.

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

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.

You can't fake wrestling. We can fake punch, but with wrestling you just have to go ahead and do it. You really need to see the hand hit the face, the head butting and everything.

I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.

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

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

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.

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.

I really like doing action. It's one of those things where I negotiate the world physically, I think, more than mentally. I enjoy running and jumping.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.