David Ogden Stiers Quotes (38 Quotes)

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

There are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent.

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

I'll always say if something I did isn't stellar. I'll find ways to let it be known that I am not among the soul of this project.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Spirit is not present in digital. You can tell when performers are committed. All you have to do is offer yourself and be affected by it.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

I always meet and greet afterwards.

I'm actually recording for PBS, doing some pickups for a narration I did on Chicago. When you're doing a biography of a town, I'm your voice

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

We're not puppets on a string, but the shows are, and they get dangled and placed opposite one another. It's a business. There you are.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.

I think our spirits are exceedingly important. I love the notion of congregating for the purpose of being uplifted without words.

You read each script as you get it and you try not to contradict what you've done before and keep the sense of evolution present.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

I've only got about a 3-hour window for recording. After the two-and-a-half hour mark, you can't hear critically what you're doing anymore.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

I love being in the middle of it - listening a bar ahead, helping people achieve a performance, and hopefully not getting in the way of them.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.