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" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Thought
Sports
Path
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" 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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You
Complain
" I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs. "
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Things
Learning
" What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together. "
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Together
" 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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Movies
Family
Funny
" 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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Have Fun
Done
Film
" 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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Move
" Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do. "
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Hire
Best
Hired
" 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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Why
You
Understand
" I love Vanna White as much as the next guy. "
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Love
Guy
Much
" 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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Touch
Support
Band
" I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely. "
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Baseball
Fan
Huge
" 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. "
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Problem
Me
Change
" It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. "
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Famous
Time
Me
" 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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Attention
You
Think
" 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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Me
Down
Friends
" 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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People
World
Start
" There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life. "
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Responsibility
Doubt
Life
" 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
" 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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Golf
Long
Lawyer
" 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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Young
I Can
White
" Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up. "
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Pick
Skating
" 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
" 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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World
Baseball
Training
" 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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Say
Down
Slow
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He
Like
Owner
" The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals. "
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Background
How
Know
" 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 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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Everyone
Rock
Goofy
" I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.' "
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Like
Love
Movie
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Good Job
Job
Great