David Ogden Stiers Quotations

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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'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.

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.

The world moves so quickly. We need more and more the things that are true, because we embrace them and offer our spiritual credulity to them.

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'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.