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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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" Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate. "

D. B. Sweeney

Country

Boy

Confession

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

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

" 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

Down

Friends

" I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there. "

" You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down. "

" I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

D. B. Sweeney

Famous

Time

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts. "

" 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. "

" There's nobility in hard work, traditional values. "

" 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. "

" I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "

" 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.' "

" Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this. "

" 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.' "

D. B. Sweeney

Love

Movie

" All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content. "

D. B. Sweeney

Great

Create

" Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome. "

" I really like the way Fox handles their shows. "

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

" 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. "