Top 20 Chris ODonnell Quotes

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I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't

I think it’s easiest to teach by example. My dad didn’t tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings – like a short fuse – but I’ve learned you can’t come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
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I try not to get too rattled about things that aren’t that important – there’s a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won’t stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we’ve gone along.
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The only time it got really crazy was during ‘Batman.’ Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn’t have gotten married.
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I don’t know that ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ is a complete reinvention, but I’m playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I’d be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.
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I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I’m doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?
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Some people aren’t touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you’d walk into the family room and there’d be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.
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It’s the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.
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Because I’m married and have kids, I feel like I sometimes get pegged as a choirboy or something, but I wouldn’t exactly describe myself that way.
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I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
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I’m definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn’t have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it’s amazing. Like everybody’s kids, they’re more savvy than I am, probably.
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I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren’t there when I came back.
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You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I’m getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.
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I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, ‘When am I going to work again?’ But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.
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I’m glad I’m not a politician.
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I don’t get surprised very often to be honest. I’m the kind of person who you couldn’t throw a surprise party for because I’d figure it out.
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I think I’m pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don’t have a new car, I drive my old car that I’ve had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.
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I’ve grown up a little bit. I’m almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I’ve been around a long time.
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I’m from a big family – I’m the youngest of seven – and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It’s what we’re used to, and for us it’s what life is all about.
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L.A. just doesn’t seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It’s home.
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I don’t try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there’s no way I’m going to talk. There’s no reason to. And that’s why I’m such a boring interview, because I don’t go for the shock value, or smartass answers.
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