Channing Tatum Quotes

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I think when you're at your best as an actor, it is cathartic.

Acting is always therapeutic.

I think everyone should take an acting class. It's like therapy because you get to learn a lot about yourself if it's the right teacher. You're putting yourself up there in front of people, and it takes a lot of the intimidation of everyday away.

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while I write. I weep. I'll laugh, get excited, and get up and pace. I try to take the emotional journey with the characters.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

When I was in theater school, we did these relationship exercises - you would play my sister, and I'd give you all this information about my sister, and then we'd get up and perform this scene, and you'd pretend to react as my sister. It was like therapy!

I was 19 years when I got into acting training classes at a TV station and then I found a way to express my feelings. My father left us when I was a kid and I just shut down all of my emotions. I wasn't talkative; I didn't know how to communicate with people. I tried to separate from people. After I got into the classes I found a way of expressing myself through characters. I can cry behind a character, I can shout behind a character and it became a relief. And it's fun.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.