Channing Tatum Quotes

I just want to do films that I like and to enjoy my work.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

My life is one that I've aimed for - I've always wanted to be an actor who worked in film and television and was able to provide for himself and his family.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

I'm very fortunate. I've looked after my money and I'm happy with where my career is at as a trainer and a promoter.

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have to get a real job on a sitcom or something, and have my zombie books to remind myself I was still a writer at heart. I never thought I could actually pay my bills and write what I wanted.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

I'm just following my own art, and I just think that the only thing I can do to be a great artist is do the best job I can in whatever movie I do.