I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.

D. B. Sweeney

Art You Yeah

When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

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Sports You Us

I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.

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Time Movies Great

My sister Kathleen - one year older - was the school's acting legend. Her thing was getting all the parts, even Tiresias. And I wasn't going to mess with that.

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Art Year Wit

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

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Very Think Thing

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

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Patience Medical You

I try to keep a low profile.

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Try T Profile

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

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You Than T

I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

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Way T Shows

I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.

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Change Age Your

I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.

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Love Would Wood

Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

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Why Turn T

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

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You Worry Will

I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

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Love T Movie

I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.

D. B. Sweeney

Young You Who

On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.

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Work Time Work Out

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

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Time Famous You

If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

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Vet Velvet T

You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

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You Unlucky UN

DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

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Great Good Yin

I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.

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Time Car You

I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

D. B. Sweeney

I bat righty.

D. B. Sweeney

There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

D. B. Sweeney

I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.

D. B. Sweeney

I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

D. B. Sweeney

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

D. B. Sweeney

Say something personal, not from a publicist.

D. B. Sweeney

When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

D. B. Sweeney

If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

D. B. Sweeney

In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'

D. B. Sweeney

Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

D. B. Sweeney

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

D. B. Sweeney

I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

D. B. Sweeney

It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.

D. B. Sweeney

When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

D. B. Sweeney

John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.

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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

D. B. Sweeney

What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

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The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.

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I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

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I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

D. B. Sweeney

I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.

D. B. Sweeney

I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.

D. B. Sweeney

If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

D. B. Sweeney

'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

D. B. Sweeney

I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with the troops and support what we're doing.

D. B. Sweeney

Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

D. B. Sweeney

Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

D. B. Sweeney

I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.

D. B. Sweeney

I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.

D. B. Sweeney