David Ogden Stiers Quotes

• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Inspirational, Family, Mean

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• 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

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 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

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Hollywood, Mets, Meetings

  "The Arrow" Interview, www.joblo.com. June 1, 2002.

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Anime, Done, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 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

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Character, Important, Engagement

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Hard Work, Writing, People

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Running, Long, Actors

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 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, Surround Sound

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Three, Three Times, Lear

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Commitment, Outcomes, Scheduling

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 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

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  People, Ears, Might

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• 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

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Crafts, Orchestra, Masters

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Ifs

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Television, Operating Systems

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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

  David Ogden Stiers

  Teacher, School, High School

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