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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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" 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

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Character

Never

" 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. "

" If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity. "

" 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. "

" With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; you're just interested in how the plot is going to unfold. "

D. B. Sweeney

Lose

Red

" 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

" I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "

" As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me. "

D. B. Sweeney

You

Better

" 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. "

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

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

" What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good. "

" 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. "

" 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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Day

" I try to keep a low profile. "

" I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids. "

" 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 would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script. "

" I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

D. B. Sweeney

About

Felt

" 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

Long

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

D. B. Sweeney

Famous

Time

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do. "