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.
— D. B. Sweeney
You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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.
The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
I try to keep a low profile.
I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.
If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.
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.
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.
All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
I'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.
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'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.
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.
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.
You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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.
I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.
I bat righty.
I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.
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.'
I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?
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.
'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.
If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
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.
I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.
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.
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.
Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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.
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.
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.
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.
