Christopher J. "Chris" Barnes (born June 24, 1965) is an American former child actor. Beginning his professional film career at the age of ten, Barnes is perhaps best known for his role as the short-tempered shortstop, Tanner Boyle in the 1976 feature film, The Bad News Bears and its sequel The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, as well as for appearing in several After School Specials during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Famous quotes containing the words chris and/or barnes:
“When I get all these accolades for being true to myself, I say, “Who else can I be? I can’t be Chris Evert.””
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door.”
—Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)