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" 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. "

D. B. Sweeney

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 try to keep a low profile. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity. "

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

" 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.' "

" More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned. "

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