Channing Tatum Quotes

I love to entertain and make people laugh.

Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

I just tell jokes, and I think a lot of people take it too seriously. It's not that I don't have things that I'm angry about in the world, and I think most decent human beings are upset about things, and even upset about things in their own country, but I'm not a particularly unhappy fellow.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I think you gotta have some humor [in your story]. People gotta have a moment to laugh and feel that it's not taken 100% serious. That's important.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

Even going on stage is a service because it brings people up from thinking about their lost job or their lost spouse or something like that, so that even helps people when I'm doing comedy; it's all done to make them laugh.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.

You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.

I love people who make me laugh!

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.