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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. "

D. B. Sweeney

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Sister

Acting

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D. B. Sweeney

Lose

Red

" 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 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. "

" There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life. "

" Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center? "

" 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. "

" I love Vanna White as much as the next guy. "

" 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 really like the way Fox handles their shows. "

" 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. "

" Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

D. B. Sweeney

About

Felt

" The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me. "

D. B. Sweeney

Why

Myself

" 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. "

" Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance. "

" 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. "

D. B. Sweeney

Famous

Time

" 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. "

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

" 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

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