W.e. Channing Quotes

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

The great hope of society is in individual character

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

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

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.