Top 100 Channing Tatum Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.””

— Channing Tatum

52. “I grew up watching ‘Braveheart’ and ‘Gladiator.’ Those are my ‘Star Wars.’ They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.”

— Channing Tatum

53. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

54. “I auditioned for a Pepsi commercial, and I got it, and that was incredibly fun. So I thought, Well, maybe I should try this acting thing .”

— Channing Tatum

55. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

56. “I would like magical palm tree that had a lot of shade with instead of coconuts there’s just peanut butter jelly sandwiches with cheetos underneath. And my wife that is always happy and possibly naked.”

— Channing Tatum

57. “I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don’t think it’s that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person.”

— Channing Tatum

58. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

59. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

60. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

61. “You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.”

— Channing Tatum

62. “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

63. “A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.”

— Channing Tatum

64. “For a time, it would work well. then it worked less and my pain was more. I would go through wild bouts of depression, horrible comedowns. I understand why kids kill themselves. I absolutely do. You feel terrible. You feel soul-less. “I’ll never do it to my child”.”

— Channing Tatum

65. “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

66. “I write, but I don’t write poetry. I don’t rhyme or anything like that.”

— Channing Tatum

67. “No one’s calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.”

— Channing Tatum

68. “I did kung fu from when I was nine to 13. You have to be really careful but you want to be able to make it look eventually as though it’s just a part of you. So, you train over and over and over again.”

— Channing Tatum

69. “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

70. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

71. “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

72. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

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

— Channing Tatum

74. “I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn’t say that that singing is my strong suit.”

— Channing Tatum

75. “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

76. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

77. “My parents let me find my way and that’s how they supported me the entire way.”

— Channing Tatum

78. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

79. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

80. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

81. “I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, “Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived.””

— Channing Tatum

82. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

83. “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

84. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

85. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

86. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

87. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

88. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

89. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

90. “I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.”

— Channing Tatum

91. “My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.”

— Channing Tatum

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

— Channing Tatum

93. “I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.”

— Channing Tatum

94. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

95. “I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn’t do it again.”

— Channing Tatum

96. “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

97. “I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can’t move well and I like to move. When I’m not training, I get really round and soft.”

— Channing Tatum

98. “I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.”

— Channing Tatum

99. “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.”

— Channing Tatum

100. “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