Channing Tatum Quotes

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

But the main thing I don't want to be is un-funny. That's really the mandate. Just whatever we're doing, make it as funny as we can possibly make it. And believe me, if the show starts going down, we'll introduce a baby. We'll do everything that they did on 'Family Ties.' I'm not afraid of that.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

I like doing the comedic episodes because it's refreshing. I enjoy doing comedic things and physical comedy. It's fun.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

There's obviously some appeal in scenes for me - there's something I respond to. I keep doing those films where I put myself out there like that. I guess I look for those kinds of moments and I pride myself on being an actor who will do just about anything for a laugh - so long as it's within context of the scene in the movie and it's not gratuitous. I have to feel it'll make people laugh.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

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

Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important part of human experience.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.