Chris O'Donnell Quotes
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've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.
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If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.
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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.
