269 Quotes by Channing Tatum

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.

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.

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

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

Playing a character that allows me to play around with some of the feelings I have inside of myself and explore them – and maybe put them to rest a little bit, or at least come to terms with them – feels successful to me. I think it’s about believing in what you do.

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

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 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.

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