Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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.' "
D. B. Sweeney
Going
You
Move
Related Quotes:
" 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
" If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks. "
D. B. Sweeney
Learn
Craft
Get
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Touch
Support
Band
" You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role. "
D. B. Sweeney
Always
Love
Role
" John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone. "
D. B. Sweeney
He
Like
Owner
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Island
Up
Long
" The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned. "
D. B. Sweeney
About
Felt
More
" Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center? "
D. B. Sweeney
Irreplaceable
Why
Turn
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Everyone
Rock
Goofy
" A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films. "
D. B. Sweeney
Film
Real
Think
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Attention
You
Think
" Say something personal, not from a publicist. "
D. B. Sweeney
Say
Something
Publicist
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
You
Think
Stupid
" If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity. "
D. B. Sweeney
Gretzky
Velvet
Electricity
" 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 think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "
D. B. Sweeney
Everything
I Think
Needs
" Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something. "
D. B. Sweeney
Say
Push
Luck
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Year
Sister
Acting
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Rights
Want
Change
" 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 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 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 like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs. "
D. B. Sweeney
Hanging
Things
Learning
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Me
Down
Friends
" 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
" Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up. "
D. B. Sweeney
You
Pick
Skating
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Me
Know
Day
" It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. "
D. B. Sweeney
Famous
Time
Me
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Chance
Fun
Good
" 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. "
D. B. Sweeney
Living
Find
Way