Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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? "
D. B. Sweeney
Come
Been
Men
Related Quotes:
" Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make. "
D. B. Sweeney
Particularly
Hard
Make
" I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "
D. B. Sweeney
Everything
I Think
Needs
" There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life. "
D. B. Sweeney
Responsibility
Doubt
Life
" There's nobility in hard work, traditional values. "
D. B. Sweeney
Hard Work
Work
Values
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Young
I Can
White
" You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it. "
D. B. Sweeney
Your
Ready
Luck
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Interesting
Good
Together
" It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. "
D. B. Sweeney
Famous
Time
Me
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Movies
Family
Funny
" I try to keep a low profile. "
D. B. Sweeney
Try
Low
Keep
" Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something. "
D. B. Sweeney
Say
Push
Luck
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Patience
Help
Character
" 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
You
Trying
World
" If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity. "
D. B. Sweeney
Gretzky
Velvet
Electricity
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Problem
Me
Change
" I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script. "
D. B. Sweeney
People
Love
Looking
" I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to. "
D. B. Sweeney
Work
Like
More
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Teacher
Kind
Year
" I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky. "
D. B. Sweeney
Real
Luck
I Believe
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Say
Character
Never
" Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome. "
D. B. Sweeney
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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Stage
Empty
Film
" Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this. "
D. B. Sweeney
Working
Movies
People
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Possible
Need
Fat
" If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks. "
D. B. Sweeney
Learn
Craft
Get
" Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center? "
D. B. Sweeney
Irreplaceable
Why
Turn
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Baseball
Game
Matter
" I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton. "
D. B. Sweeney
Good Friends
Friends
Good
" I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely. "
D. B. Sweeney
Baseball
Fan
Huge
" The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control. "
D. B. Sweeney
Enough
Problem
Movies