Top 100 Channing Tatum Quotes
#2. It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you ... man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'
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#3. There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.
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#4. I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.
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#10. 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.
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#11. I think the superstar thing is completely arbitrary. It's all about who had a movie that did well one weekend. Then, if you have a movie that doesn't do well the next weekend, then, all of the sudden, you've fallen from whatever. So it doesn't really mean anything for me.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.
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#16. I lived crazy really young. So now I don't need to go out and get nuts.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
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#20. Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.
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#21. Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.
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#22. I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.
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#23. Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
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#30. I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.
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#31. I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.
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#32. I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.
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#33. 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.
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#34. I worry about Bieber, man. That kid's wildly talented. I hope he doesn't fall down into the usual ways of young kids because it's so hard for someone to be responsible when they're not asked to be.
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#35. Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.
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#39. 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.
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#40. My wife always hates when I go, 'I just don't love female action movies.' I don't know why. I'll watch them, but I don't run to go and see them.
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#41. 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.
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#42. I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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.'
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#47. I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.
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#51. I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'
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#52. But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.
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#53. I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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."
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#60. 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.
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#61. I've lived almost, like, four completely different lives. (Stripping) was just one section - one little small section, if that - but it was a very interesting and turbulent but kind of wild ride and I'm not ashamed of it all. I think it's hilarious and I learned a lot about human nature.
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#62. My mother taught me how to love. My mom is the most loving person I know.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 'm just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole 'I don't want you to make the same mistakes' mentality. My dad didn't have much money growing up; he didn't have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn't want it.
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#66. Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.
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#67. I talk different, I walk different, everything. I don't have one single bad memory [there]. Not one. It was my sanctuary. I hated school, wasn't good in school, and me and my dad butted heads about that. But nothing mattered when I went home to Alabama.
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#68. My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.
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#69. 'The Vow,' I didn't know if people were going to want to see it, but we felt good about it. We we're like, 'Alright, either way, I liked the movie for what it was,' and I think we knew exactly what we were trying to do.
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#70. '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.
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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.
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#73. The more you try to look sexy, the lamer it is, so you just have to commit to the comedy.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.
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#76. I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.
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#77. 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.
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#78. I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.
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#79. 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.
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#80. It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.
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#81. My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.
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#82. 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.
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#83. 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.
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#84. I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.
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#85. I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
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#86. A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.
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#87. I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.
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#88. I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.
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#89. 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.
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#90. 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.
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#91. Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.
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#92. No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
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#93. 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.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.
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#98. You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.
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#99. I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.
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#100. I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.
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