Channing Tatum Net Worth

Channing Tatum's Quotes

• (2009, on his career) I got crazy lucky. Like sometimes, I think I won the lottery or something. At times, it feels like the bottom's gonna fall out. Just 'cause I don't really know how I got here. But I just keep moving forward, and it just keeps getting better and better.
• [on Haywire (2011)] My wife always hates when I go, "I just don't love female action movies." I don't know why. I'll watch them, but I don't run to go and see them. I'd say, "Find a girl that can, pardon my French, whup my ass, and I will go to the movie." And they did! They went and found [MMA champion Gina Carano] and she did! And it was awesome. I truly loved it.
• Men go to strip clubs for a pretty simple reason. It's a carnal, visual thing. The point of male stripping is to bring women onstage and embarrass them so their friends can cheer them on. Women go to watch their friends' faces turn red and to have a night of camaraderie with their girlfriends.
• The more you try to look sexy, the lamer it is, so you just have to commit to the comedy.
• [on being told that People magazine voted him the 2012 Sexiest Man Alive] Y'all are messin' with me.

Interesting Facts about Channing Tatum

1. Has modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch, Dolce & Gabbana and Aeropostale. In 2002, he starred in commercials for both Mountain Dew ("Drive") and Pepsi ("Scratching").
2. His first fashion show was at Level Nightclub in South Beach, Miami (November 2000) for Men's Health magazine. His friend Vincent De Paul asked him to do the show with him. After the fashion show, he began booking editorials for Ocean Drive magazine and his modeling career began.
3. His family has lived in the American South for many generations, at least since the 1700s. He has English, some Irish and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), and distant Scottish, German, Welsh, and French ancestry. Channing has sometimes been said to have some degree of Native American roots, although these claims appear to be unverified; all of Channing's grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents were listed as "White" on United States Censuses.
4. Was sent to a military school in ninth grade, where he joined the football team and intended to get a scholarship to play after graduation.
5. Big break was being cast in Ricky Martin's music video "She Bangs", where he was paid $400 for a 7-day shoot.
6. Moved from Alabama to Mississippi at age 6, where his family lived on a bayou.
7. Stills spends his summer time with his grandparents back in Alabama.
8. Auditioned for the role of Gambit in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) before the role was eliminated, but will portray him in Gambit (????).
9. Had worked as a construction worker, a mortgage broker, a salesman at the cologne counter of Dillard's, and a worker in a puppy/kitty nursery before started a modeling career.
10. Became good friends with Adam Scarimbolo and Shia LaBeouf on the set of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006).
11. Received a full athletic football scholarship at Glenville State College in West Virginia, but he dropped out of college.
12. When in ninth grade, he was given the option of either military school or a private school; he chose the military school.
13. During his time in school, he played football, soccer, track and baseball.
14. His first fashion show was at Level Nightclub in South Beach, Miami, for Men's Health magazine.
15. Attended the Deena Levy Theatre Studio.
16. His favourite childhood film was the adventure comedy film The Goonies (1985).
17. When he was a child, his grandparents raised him during the summers.
18. Made the transition from modeling to acting because he did not find modeling challenging enough for him.
19. Signed with Innovative Artists, a talent agency, to improve his acting career.
20. Has played two characters called "Duke": She's the Man (2006) and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and the sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013).