Channing Tatum
It's just weird that for some people, art is a luxury. My parents had no artistic outlet. Some people pass down music to their kids, but I couldn't tell you what my mom's or dad's favorite song is. So when I started going out into the world, I was drawn to people who knew about movies, art, even fashion.
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 believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We're just like, 'What can we go get into this weekend?' Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It's all memories.
Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.
But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.
'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 get one shot at life, and I can say that I've lived a crazy one, and I've pushed the limit almost at every turn, and I'm super proud of that.
The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.
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.'
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.Collection: People
Everyone's a nerd inside. I don't care how cool you are.Collection: Nerd
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.Collection: Cheating
Just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.Collection: Thinking
I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.Collection: Sweet
As much as you can love someone, is as much as you can hate someone. It goes in equal and opposite directions. Like if you love someone so much and they hurt you so bad, then that is as equal as to how much you can have rage for them.Collection: Hurt
Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.Collection: Sometimes
I think some of the scariest people I've met in my life have been some of the sweetest.Collection: Thinking
With my career in general, I feel like I'm finally getting to do the roles that I've always wanted to do. It's a slow build; you can't ever get the roles that you want in the beginning of your career because you don't have the buzz or the heat, or whatever the hell it is you need for the agents and the studios to be happy.Collection: Careers
I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.Collection: Fighting
If it wasn't for her literally doing my homework for me, I would not have even graduated high school. Guaranteed . . . My mom always said, 'Luck is nothing but preparation and opportunity.' I think because I've had that history of not really being great in school, I probably try to overcompensate. That's why I try to read so many books. Just so I don't feel . . . uneducated.Collection: Mom
It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Parent
Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.Collection: Fun
I like doing this stuff [stunts] though, it's kind of the whole reason that you want to do the movie. When you're reading it you're like, "Oh, I get to dive out a window? Cool! I get to jump off a building? Great!" So I love doing that stuff, it's like the stuff we used to do in high school to be stupid and fun.Collection: Fun
I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Moving
Getting hurt and narrowly escaping death is sort of a thing for me.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Fun
I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.Collection: Writing
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."Collection: Cousin
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.Collection: Lines
There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Art
I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.Collection: Thinking
I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Get Better
I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and stuff that I'm not in and really make a good run at it as a production. I'm probably going to take a break from acting after a little while because I've enjoyed the developmental process so much. It helps you as an actor to learn story and to learn how to really nurture a script and work with a writer so you're not sitting there having to write it yourself and give notes.Collection: Running
There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.Collection: Directors
No, I was never that kind of guy. I believed in true romance; one-night stands are always going to leave you feeling cold and empty. I was always looking for the real thing, romance, and all that. I love being married. I never liked the idea of going to bars and chasing girls. Some guys might enjoy that, but I always wanted to find that one special woman, which I did when I met Jenna.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Years
I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.Collection: Fighting
A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Song
Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Talking