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" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those? "

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

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

" I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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 was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can. "

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

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

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

" I really like the way Fox handles their shows. "

" 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 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. "

" I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places? "

" 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. "