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All Quotes by author - D. B. Sweeney

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

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

" A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films. "

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

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

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

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

" I bat righty. "

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

" I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity. "

" 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. "

" If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me. "

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

" 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. "

" I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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