Latest Channing Tatum Quotes from Interviews

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

  Channing Tatum

  Interesting, Waxing, Painful

• I was undervalued so I stopped stripping. I was 18 years old and I worked three jobs. This was just one of them, and I really enjoyed performing. It was probably my first performing job ever. I really like to dance, obviously, but then I didn't really love taking the clothes off at the end.

  Channing Tatum

  Jobs, Years, Clothes

• There's a dance that happens with you and that's why I really like doing it with stunt men, because they know how to dance generally better than actors do. It is choreography and if you aren't used to doing it things can go wrong.

  Channing Tatum

  Men, Actors, Used

  "Channing Tatum Talks Working with Roland Emmerich and Jamie Foxx, Doing His Own Stunts, MAGIC MIKE 2 and More on the Set of WHITE HOUSE DOWN". Group Interview in between Set-ups, collider.com. April 10, 2013.

• The director sets the tone, and if someone's ruling it with an iron fist, people are quiet and the days go long in my experience, when there's a very serious tone, the days just drag. When there's someone who, in between takes, is joking or laughing the days go quick.

  Channing Tatum

  Iron, Long, People

  "Channing Tatum Talks Working with Roland Emmerich and Jamie Foxx, Doing His Own Stunts, MAGIC MIKE 2 and More on the Set of WHITE HOUSE DOWN". Group Interview in between Set-ups, collider.com. April 10, 2013.

• There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually make the decision that if it's something you really want then do it for yourself.

  Channing Tatum

  Character, Decision, Saying Yes

  "Channing Tatum Talks Working with Roland Emmerich and Jamie Foxx, Doing His Own Stunts, MAGIC MIKE 2 and More on the Set of WHITE HOUSE DOWN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. April 10, 2013.

• The abuse of prescription pills is a real thing. I understand that there are people that really need them and I understand that there are people that abuse them, and it's just a gray line that unfortunately has to exist.

  Channing Tatum

  Real, People, Abuse

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.

  Channing Tatum

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• 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.

  Channing Tatum

  Wrestling, Hands, Fake

  Source: www.shockya.com

• Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at them. And they're just as scary in a way. I hate labeling all these things; comedy, love stories, dark drama, whatever.

  Channing Tatum

  Hate, Drama, Dark

  Source: www.shockya.com

• 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 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 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

  Years, Vintage, Stuff

• 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'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

• 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

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

  Channing Tatum

  Men, Female, Doe

• 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

  Source: m.usmagazine.com

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: collider.com

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

  Channing Tatum

  Parent, Way, Let Me

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• 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

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk