'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

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'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'm a sucker for doing something fun. If somebody wants to pay me to learn how to fly a plane or be a better golfer, that certainly would be a plus - or if it's filming in Tahiti.

Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

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.

DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

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.

I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.

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.'

If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

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

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.

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

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.

I bat righty.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

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.

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 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.