D. B. Sweeney Quotes

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

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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.

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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can’t create content.

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

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I’d love to do a movie like ‘Bullitt.’

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I’m a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus – or if it’s filming in Tahiti.

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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now – guys riding buses, there’s no training staff, and there’s a lot of paranoia.

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The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don’t give the director enough control.

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

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You always love to fantasize you’ll get your dream role.

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The actors in ‘Eight Men Out’ really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

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

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I’ve seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn’t stink. But if you’re empty and manipulative on stage, it’s clear.

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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

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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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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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I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

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If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn’t read. He was illiterate.

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

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

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If I go to a baseball game, I hear ‘Shoeless Joe,’ but otherwise, I hear ‘toe pick’ five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that’ll be on my gravestone.

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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.

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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.

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

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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing ‘Lonesome Dove,’ and he’s one of those actors with whom I’d work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.

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I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like ‘High School Musical.’ He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.

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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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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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There’s nobility in hard work, traditional values.

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

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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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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network‘s attention – to break through… So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

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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.

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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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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.

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I don’t know; it’s hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.

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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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Any time I get to work a home game, it’s awesome.

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