David Ogden Stiers famous quotes

05-23-2025

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Inspirational #Family #Mean
There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Couple #Play #Roles
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Nice #Hands #People
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

#Disappointment #Kids #Sound
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Character #Important #Engagement
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Teacher #School #High School
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Commitment #Outcomes
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

#Funny #Men #Years
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

#Character #Thinking #Way
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

#Years #Hollywood #Half
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

#Player #Dvds #Experience
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

#Hate #Get Better #Tape
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

#Kids #Giving #Experience
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

#Different #Orchestra #Singers
I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Running #Long #Actors
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Three #Lear
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

#Father #Simple #Men
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Hard Work #Writing #People
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Crafts #Orchestra #Masters
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Anime #Done #Film
If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
-- David Ogden Stiers
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Television #Operating Systems
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Hollywood #Mets #Meetings
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Religious #Men #Mainstream
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

#Cutting #Cold #Film
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Benefits #Orchestra #Concerts
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#Depth #Our Society #Information
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
-- David Ogden Stiers

#People #Ears #Might

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