Top 100 Channing Tatum Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m not a fighter. I’m not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.”

— Channing Tatum

2. “I’m thankful for weird people out there ’cause they’re some of the most creative people.”

— Channing Tatum

3. “Everyone’s a nerd inside. I don’t care how cool you are.”

— Channing Tatum

4. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

5. “I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.”

— Channing Tatum

6. “Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.”

— Channing Tatum

7. “I grew up in Florida, where if you weren’t comfortable dancing, you weren’t going to get any girls.”

— Channing Tatum

8. “Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.”

— Channing Tatum

9. “I lived crazy really young. So now I don’t need to go out and get nuts.”

— Channing Tatum

10. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

11. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

12. “I don’t know what you’re going through life doing if you’re not really trying to collect some really great memories.”

— Channing Tatum

13. “Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.”

— Channing Tatum

14. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

15. “I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.”

— Channing Tatum

16. “I don’t ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I’ve got a thick neck from playing football.”

— Channing Tatum

17. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

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

— Channing Tatum

19. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

20. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

21. “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

22. “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

23. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

24. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

25. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

26. “Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.”

— Channing Tatum

27. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

28. “I have the flying dream a lot where I’m jumping off a building and just flying around.”

— Channing Tatum

29. “But I’m not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I’m just an actor.”

— Channing Tatum

30. “My parents couldn’t handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn’t resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.”

— Channing Tatum

31. “I used to work at a puppy nursery.”

— Channing Tatum

32. “I’ve cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we’re going to die in bed together. I’m like: “That’s weird, I don’t want to talk about that.””

— Channing Tatum

33. “Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.”

— Channing Tatum

34. “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

35. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

36. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

37. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

38. “I don’t know if I’m very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.”

— Channing Tatum

39. “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

40. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

41. “Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.”

— Channing Tatum

42. “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

43. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

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

— Channing Tatum

45. “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

46. “If my Dad doesn’t like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn’t even cuss.”

— Channing Tatum

47. “I’ve always had way too much energy so I’m always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.”

— Channing Tatum

48. “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

49. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

50. “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.”

— Channing Tatum