D. B. Sweeney Quotes

United States, Actor
November 14, 1961

Daniel Bernard Sweeney is an American actor. Sweeney guest-starred in the television series The Edge of Night and Spenser: For Hire. In films, he has played Jackie Willow, a Vietnam-era soldier, in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), navigator 1st Lt. Phil Lowenthal in Memphis Belle (1990), and Travis Walton in Fire in the Sky (1993). He also played former ice hockey player Doug Dorsey in The Cutting Edge (1992), Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988), and Dish Boggett in Lonesome Dove (1989).

Also known as Stage Actor, Television Actor, Voice Actor, Film Actor, Writer, Producer

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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- World
- Trying
- Training
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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- People
- World
- Care

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

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- People
- Best
- Trust
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.

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- Good
- Fun
- Baseball
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.

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- Know
- Red
- Lose
Say something personal, not from a publicist.

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

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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.

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- Why
- Character
- Movie

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.

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- Real
- Think
- Baseball
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.'

D. B. Sweeney
- Up
- Men
- You