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" You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role. "
D. B. Sweeney
Always
Love
Role
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" Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do. "
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" Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make. "
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" 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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" Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something. "
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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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" 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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" The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned. "
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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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" 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 bat righty. "
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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'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. "
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" 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. "
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Long
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" I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat. "
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Opinion
American
Great
" 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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Think
" 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. "
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Thought
Sports
Path
" I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely. "
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Baseball
Fan
Huge
" I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.' "
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Like
Love
Movie
" Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this. "
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Working
Movies
People
" 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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" 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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Rights
Want
Change
" Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance. "
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Give
" I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs. "
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Needs
" 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G. "
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Religion
Faith
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" 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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Funny
" I love Vanna White as much as the next guy. "
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Much
" If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me. "
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Myself
Me