A biography for D. B. Sweeneyhasn’t been written yet.
“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 really like the way Fox handles their shows.”
“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.”
“I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.”
“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 keep a low profile.”
“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.”
“I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.”
“What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.”
“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.”
“I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.”
“The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.”
“I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.”
“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 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.”
“All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.”
“I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.”
“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.'”
“The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.”
“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.”