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Channing Tatum, born on April 26, 1980, is a renowned American actor. He gained widespread popularity for his performances in the 'High School Musical' film series and has since showcased his versatile talents in films like '21 Jump Street' and 'Magic Mike'. Tatum is known for his exceptional performances on both film and stage, and has achieved significant success across multiple domains.

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“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.”

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

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“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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“Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.”

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“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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“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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“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.”

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“There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.”

Doe Action Can Do Directors International Scales

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“I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.”

Thinking Knows Film Intimacy Avalanches Myopic

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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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“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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“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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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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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“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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“I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.”

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

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“I don't like doing action movies. They're not that interesting... it's fun to do the physical element but the really fun stuff, like running into exploding buildings, they won't let you do. There's too much money riding on you not getting hurt. But yes, there's something exhilarating in just sitting on a beach with somebody having a real conversation. There's something exhilarating about being open and honest.”

“I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.”

Said Directors Direct Mirrors

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

Saws Streets Modeling Miami

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“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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“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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“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.”

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

Shots Hunting Deer

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“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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“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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“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."”

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“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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“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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“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.”

Thinking World Running Action Enjoy Jumping

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

People Thinking Has Beens Mets Sweetest

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

Nice Dangerous Sweet Theory

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“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.”

Littles Hard Kids Trouble Here And There

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“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.”

Thinking Giving Trying I Can Actors Careers Dramatic

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“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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“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.”

Ifs Want Action Lines Too Much Building

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“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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“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."”

People I Can Sitting My Family Yeah Hanging Out Shed Cousin My Cousin

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

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“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.”

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

Ifs Thinking Men Way Fighting Soldier

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“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.”

Thinking Littles Country America Bits Audience Pieces Periods Little Bit Fascinated Old Things

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

Hurt Escaping Getting Hurt

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“I've loved Kevin McDonald's movies for a while and it was an amazing experience because he really wanted to do something different. It was by far one of the hardest things I've ever done, to wake up every single day and know that you're going to be freezing cold and wet, every single day, 10 times a day, and there's no getting away from it.”

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Author:Channing Tatum

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Born: April 26, 1980
Known for: Actor
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