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David Ogden Stiers
American
Actor
About the author
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Information
#Society
#Nature
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Character
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.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Years
#Family
#Man
#Faith
#Question
#Father
#Affection
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Now
#Kids
#Power
#Sound
#Theater
#Disappointment
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.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Experience
There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Want
#Love
#Play
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.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Man
#Funny
#Moments
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.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Kids
#Experience
#Open
#Music
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.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Character
#Extreme
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#People
#Work
#Writing
#Attention
#Hard work
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.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Work
#Orchestras
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
#Friend
#Meeting
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.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Movies
#Hate
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Family
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#People
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Television
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Commitment
#Network
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Time
#Film
#Change
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Living
#Teachers
#School
#Music
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Man
#Religious
I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Actor
#Actors
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Love
#People
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Will
#Orchestras
If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Right
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Film
#English
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Love
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.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
#Years
#Old
#Meeting
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
David Ogden Stiers,
American
Actor
#Money