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"I'm a ballplayer, not an actor."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
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"Actors are very generous."
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"Every actor wants to direct."
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"Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day."
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"I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages."
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"I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves."
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"I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar."
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"There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that."
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"When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that."
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"I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink."
Thought
"If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could."
Family
"The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat."
Sports
"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."
Leadership
"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues."
Family
"I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates."
Management
"I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way."
Ambition
"You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen."
Emotional
"You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'"
Body
"Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play."
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