Channing Tatum Quotes

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's impossible to walk across the stage without having the major portion of my outfit torn off for souvenirs.

When I was 30, I was very popular. Kids would scream, and women would scream.

People all want to hug me. They want to touch The GC!

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

It's different hearing girls I don't even know scream my name.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

When you turn up in Leicester Square and there are 5,000 people screaming your name and holding placards, that's just weird. It's hard to find a place for it in your brain that makes any sense. I'm not really comfortable in that sort of situation.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

I don't want people to treat me like a star or call me one.

I don't really want to be famous.

When I first started to blow up, everybody thought I was rich. Everybody started asking for stuff. My friends started becoming fans. Even my teachers began to act like fans.

I love the fame, I love the attention, and I love the perks.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.