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" I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky. "
D. B. Sweeney
Real
Luck
I Believe
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" 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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" I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely. "
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Huge
" Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center? "
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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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" 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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Island
Up
Long
" 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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Long
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" You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it. "
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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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People
Love
Looking
" Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance. "
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Your
Chance
Give
" I really like the way Fox handles their shows. "
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Fox
Way
Shows
" If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity. "
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Gretzky
Velvet
Electricity
" 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.' "
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Going
You
Move
" I try to keep a low profile. "
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Try
Low
Keep
" With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold. "
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Lose
More
Red
" Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome. "
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Home
Work
Get
" 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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Stage
Empty
Film
" 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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Working
Movies
People
" I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat. "
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Opinion
American
Great
" I love Vanna White as much as the next guy. "
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Love
Guy
Much
" 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G. "
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Redemption
Religion
Faith
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Time
Career
Early
" 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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Project
Work
Bug
" 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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Say
Character
Never
" 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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Rights
Want
Change
" If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks. "
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Learn
Craft
Get
" 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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Baseball
Game
Matter
" The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned. "
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About
Felt
More
" 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
Help
Character