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• 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.’

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• I can’t do the same movies all my life. I’m conscious of that. But it’s a trade-off. ‘Dear John’ allowed me to do movies I’ve wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I’m still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it’s a steady climb. You don’t jump into a Soderbergh film.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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Channing Tatum (55)

Birth:	26th April, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Dancer, Model, Producer

About

Channing Matthew Tatum was born in Cullman, Alabama. He is an American actor, producer, dancer, and model. He made his film debut in the drama film Coach Carter. His breakthrough role was in the 2006 dance film Step Up, which introduced him to a wider audience. He has also appeared in the commercially successful romantic films Dear John and The Vow. His other films include She's the Man, The Dilemma, White House Down and Foxcatcher, for which he received critical praise.

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