"I'm going to tell you something right now, and don't tell our sons.”
Bob Odenkirk continues to drop some of the best quotes about kids growing up.
The 62-year-old comedian, best known for his role as Saul Goodman in “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” was on the red carpet at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Aug. 12 for the premiere of “Nobody 2.”
While speaking with Entertainment Tonight, the father of two expanded on his quote about fatherhood that went viral recently.
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“Well, look, I know it’s hard. Believe me, I know how tired you are when you have little kids,” Odenkirk said to parents everywhere. “And you hear me say that and you go, ‘Really? I would love a break!’”
“But it makes your life have meaning everyday — and joy,” he continued.
Odenkirk went on to say that he doesn’t “think there’s anything more entertaining than kids growing up.”
“It’s very fulfilling,” he concluded.
The “Mr. Show” star shares son Nate and daughter Erin with his wife Naomi, whom he has been married to since 1997, according to People.
His comment at the “Nobody 2” premiere comes two weeks after he dished yet another viral quote about fatherhood during a July 27 appearance on Mike Birbiglia’s “Working It Out” podcast.
Birbiglia asked the actor who he’s most jealous of — to which he responded, “Gee, anybody who’s still got little kids at home growing up.”
“There’s no question. I knew what I was doing when I had kids growing up,” he added. “I was being a dad. I mean, that was my job.”
Bob Odenkirk shares some of his fondest fatherhood memories
Odenkirk has been very open in the past about how much he loves being a father to his two kids.
During a 2023 appearance on “Podcrushed,” Odenkirk — who was joined by his daughter Erin — was asked to reminisce about some of his fondest memories with his two kids.
He immediately recalled a time when Erin was six years old.
“She was a very little kid and I was being really silly doing a character voice,” he told podcast co-hosts Nava Kavelin, Penn Badgley and Sophie Ansari.
Odenkirk said his daughter was just sitting there looking at him until he finished — at which point she offered a one-word response.
“Bad,” he recalled his daughter saying. “I just loved it so much. It was so critical and smart and self-composed.”
He went on to praise his daughter for being able to critique the things he and his wife were doing and saying at the time, and credited her for being “separate” and “mature.”
As for his son Nate, Odenkirk described him as a “very silly kid” who loved comedy — like his sister.
He then recalled a time when his son had just entered his teenage years.
“(Nate) came in and he looked at me and he said, ‘Dad, you’re in ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Mr. Show,’ ‘Tim and Eric,’” Odenkirk remembered. “You’re on all my favorite shows…”
“And he was not happy,” he continued. “It was bumming him out.”
In 2023, Odenkirk and his two kids released a children’s book called “Zilot & Other Important Rhymes.”
The book included a series of poems that the trio had written together as an old bedtime tradition.
“I would write a line, then they would write a line and I would write down the line that they said. I wouldn't fix it,” he said of the poems in a 2023 interview with Fatherly.
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“Bob kept them all in a journal that he called Old Time Rhymes, and we kept it on our bookshelf for 20 years,” his daughter added at the time.
