If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.
D. B. SWEENEY When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have z...
D. B. SWEENEY I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or &...
D. B. SWEENEY I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an ac...
D. B. SWEENEY I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I w...
D. B. SWEENEY The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
D. B. SWEENEY What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
D. B. SWEENEY If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating b...
D. B. SWEENEY When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand...
D. B. SWEENEY I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
D. B. SWEENEY I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around f...
D. B. SWEENEY I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given ...
D. B. SWEENEY 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religi...
D. B. SWEENEY I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother ...
D. B. SWEENEY To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.&#...
D. B. SWEENEY Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. SWEENEY I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But...
D. B. SWEENEY When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That...
D. B. SWEENEY Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
D. B. SWEENEY Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
D. B. SWEENEY There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
D. B. SWEENEY You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.
D. B. SWEENEY I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
D. B. SWEENEY You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. Yo...
D. B. SWEENEY The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to th...
D. B. SWEENEY If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' ...
D. B. SWEENEY Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
D. B. SWEENEY I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, ...
D. B. SWEENEY I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little ...
D. B. SWEENEY The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
D. B. SWEENEY I thought I might meet some girls, to tell you the truth.
D. B. SWEENEY I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.
D. B. SWEENEY John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
D. B. SWEENEY I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he'...
D. B. SWEENEY I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably ...
D. B. SWEENEY I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when peop...
D. B. SWEENEY If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
D. B. SWEENEY My sister Kathleen - one year older - was the school's acting legend. Her thing was getting all ...
D. B. SWEENEY I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of thi...
D. B. SWEENEY Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance.
D. B. SWEENEY I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest o...
D. B. SWEENEY Say something personal, not from a publicist.
D. B. SWEENEY It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
D. B. SWEENEY I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' Ho...
D. B. SWEENEY I don't play the bass. I'm not in a band. I tried to think of ways I could touch base with t...
D. B. SWEENEY I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
D. B. SWEENEY I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
D. B. SWEENEY If I'm not going to bet on myself, why would anyone else bet on me.
D. B. SWEENEY It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's har...
D. B. SWEENEY I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
D. B. SWEENEY As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
D. B. SWEENEY When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who...
D. B. SWEENEY With the Red Sox, you have more of a literary interest in it. You know they're going to lose; yo...
D. B. SWEENEY Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Holly...
D. B. SWEENEY I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
D. B. SWEENEY There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to J...
D. B. SWEENEY I bat righty.
D. B. SWEENEY I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like base...
D. B. SWEENEY I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the righ...
D. B. SWEENEY In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of par...
D. B. SWEENEY I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
D. B. SWEENEY DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in eve...
D. B. SWEENEY Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't...
D. B. SWEENEY The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all p...
D. B. SWEENEY All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can'...
D. B. SWEENEY Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?
D. B. SWEENEY Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
D. B. SWEENEY I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of ...
D. B. SWEENEY You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.
D. B. SWEENEY On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call ...
D. B. SWEENEY I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's...
D. B. SWEENEY Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness...
D. B. WEISS I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up...
B. D. WONG I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take t...
B. D. WONG If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American par...
B. D. WONG In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
B. D. WONG Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
B. D. WONG I had studied the violin to a certain amount of success. At some point, I realized that I didn't...
B. D. WONG Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries...
B. D. WONG I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man...
B. D. WONG I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, compli...
B. D. WONG I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people h...
B. D. WONG I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
B. D. WONG I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential a...
B. D. WONG Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has ...
B. D. WONG Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to b...
B. D. WONG I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it&#...
B. D. WONG Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents...
B. D. WONG There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every s...
B. D. WONG As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, bu...
B. D. WONG I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering t...
B. D. WONG The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. ...
B. D. WONG I'm basically nocturnal.
B. D. WONG Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated...
B. D. WONG I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, d...
B. D. WONG Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes a...
B. D. WONG I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a lo...
B. D. WONG Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can re...
D. B. WEISS Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
B. D. WONG The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give li...
D. B. WEISS I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If...
D. B. WEISS When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to e...
D. B. WEISS We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head...
D. B. WEISS After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There...
D. B. WEISS I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
D. B. WEISS I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golde...
B. D. WONG I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it...
D. B. WEISS I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the ...
D. B. WEISS There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make ...
D. B. WEISS I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess fro...
B. D. WONG There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. WONG If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
B. D. WONG I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things muc...
B. D. WONG I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same...
JOHN SWEENEY In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global ...
JOHN SWEENEY I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a...
JULIA SWEENEY Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. ...
ALISON SWEENEY If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you ...
ALISON SWEENEY Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different...
ANNE SWEENEY I'm addicted to a really tough workout. I like to be drenched in sweat when I'm done because...
ALISON SWEENEY Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express lin...
PAUL SWEENEY Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
PAUL SWEENEY How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and i...
PAUL SWEENEY How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a ...
PAUL SWEENEY True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
PAUL SWEENEY You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lo...
PAUL SWEENEY I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important t...
ALISON SWEENEY Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.
ALISON SWEENEY I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwar...
ALISON SWEENEY I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded wit...
ALISON SWEENEY When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wa...
ALISON SWEENEY I eat a lot of fruit after I run. I find that hydrates me better than just drinking water. I have fr...
ALISON SWEENEY I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and hav...
ALISON SWEENEY I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversat...
ALISON SWEENEY I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and gra...
ALISON SWEENEY It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail poli...
ALISON SWEENEY The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog...
ALISON SWEENEY I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it'...
ALISON SWEENEY People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yours...
ALISON SWEENEY With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be eve...
ALISON SWEENEY I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown...
ALISON SWEENEY I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing....
ALISON SWEENEY Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. an...
ALISON SWEENEY One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to...
ALISON SWEENEY My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we ne...
ALISON SWEENEY I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tre...
ALISON SWEENEY To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and ...
JULIA SWEENEY What hasn't he done for prime time is more the question. I think he has brought a strong new creativ...
ANNE SWEENEY It's an opportunity for us to learn more about a different model. None of us can live in a world of ...
ANNE SWEENEY Why are they doing this and disrupting the schedule? It's going to cost so much in busing, we could ...
ANNE SWEENEY The strategic utilization of new technologies to meet consumer needs is of paramount importance to t...
ANNE SWEENEY A la carte is not good for consumers, and we have experience to prove it. Disney Channel was once of...
ANNE SWEENEY It's a learning opportunity, about recognizing that none of us can live in a world of just one busin...
ANNE SWEENEY In the future, consumers will rely more and more on strong brands to help them navigate the digital ...
ANNE SWEENEY This announcement highlights the momentum we've achieved both in launching new broadband services an...
ANNE SWEENEY The evolution of ABC.com is just one piece of our comprehensive, digital media multi-platform busine...
ANNE SWEENEY This agreement, which marks our largest distribution deal outside the US, is great news for viewers,...
ANNE SWEENEY There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticin...
ALISON SWEENEY Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to la...
ALISON SWEENEY Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that c...
ALISON SWEENEY I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat as...
ALISON SWEENEY Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How abou...
ALISON SWEENEY I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitel...
ALISON SWEENEY Kids don't eat fast. They take their time; they talk and laugh. Sometimes it's really annoyi...
ALISON SWEENEY It's about making plays,
BILL SWEENEY We thought we could exploit him off tackle,
BILL SWEENEY We just got to show up and play from the get-go, ... Once we settle down, we're fine.
BILL SWEENEY Once we settle down, we're fine.
BILL SWEENEY The beginning of games have been like this for this group during their whole time here, ... We're de...
BILL SWEENEY We have to show up from the get-go.
BILL SWEENEY Early in games, we're dead,
BILL SWEENEY It was basically the execution tonight, I was real happy with that. We were just running an offense ...
BILL SWEENEY That's something we were struggling with early on in the season was finding the holes. And he found ...
BILL SWEENEY You have to make them pay if they throw an errant pass ? and (Ryan) really did a nice job of that.
BILL SWEENEY We've got two good young players and three positions to fill. That will determine how our season goe...
BOB SWEENEY I just think success has to be measured by a lot more than test scores.
BOB SWEENEY We got the first one behind us. We'll just get better from here.
BOB SWEENEY It's just a label. I think schools then become obsessed in their graduating class with how many have...
BOB SWEENEY The Board of Education sees numbers. I see faces. If someone thinks the star athlete is the one gett...
BOB SWEENEY I was shocked. I was coming down the hill and it looked like a scene from 'NYPD Blue' or 'CSI'.
BOB SWEENEY Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has bee...
ANNE SWEENEY What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into a...
ALISON SWEENEY I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain...
ALISON SWEENEY In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Au...
JOHN SWEENEY They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevar...
JOHN SWEENEY A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The or...
PAUL SWEENEY You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a...
PAUL SWEENEY Eight years of Clinton-Gore haven't been enough to repair the damage of 12 years of Reagan and Bush....
JOHN SWEENEY We actually breached the wall due to the deteriorating conditions caused by the intense wind at this...
ROBERT SWEENEY We've been talking since last October. It's a killer. It's never been like this.
PAUL SWEENEY I'd prefer they didn't show them or accept them. They certainly looked like the artists' work, but i...
PAUL SWEENEY He won't ever let it go. He'll always be around.
PAUL SWEENEY The most other guys have is 20 to 25 years experience. He's been around twice as long.
PAUL SWEENEY If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a...
ANNE SWEENEY A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not jus...
ANNE SWEENEY The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who l...
JOHN SWEENEY The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.
JOHN SWEENEY Saturday Night Live
JULIA SWEENEY Letting Go of God.
JULIA SWEENEY You had to get out of them occasionally, those Illinois towns with funny names: Paris. Oblong. Norma...
JULIA SWEENEY