David Ogden Stiers Quotes

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David Ogden Stiers

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 31, 1942

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

David Ogden Stiers

The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.

David Ogden Stiers

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

I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.

David Ogden Stiers

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

David Ogden Stiers

I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.

David Ogden Stiers

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

David Ogden Stiers

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

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

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

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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

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

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

David Ogden Stiers

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.

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