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" John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone. "
D. B. Sweeney
He
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance. "
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" All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content. "
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" 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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" 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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" The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control. "
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" If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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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Want
Change
" 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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" 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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" 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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Love
Looking
" 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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Slow
" It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. "
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Time
Me
" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job. "
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Life
" 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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Loser
You
Complain
" 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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" 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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Good
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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" 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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