Channing Tatum Quotes

I want to do content-driven film, powerful roles which I've never done before.

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.

Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

I am not an actress who only wants to do lead roles.

I have done serious roles in various films including 'Budget Padmanabhan,' 'Thaththi Thavudhu Manasu,' among others.

I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.

As far as films are concerned, I would take up only those roles which are challenging and have some substance in them.

I'd like to act in Punjabi films and do some great roles instead of just dance sequences.

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

'Agent Mom' is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as 'Agent Mom.'

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun.