Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by D. B. Sweeney - Page 2

John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.

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

You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.

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 try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

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.

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

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

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

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.

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.

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.

I bat righty.

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

I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

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.

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.

I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

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.

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.

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