David Ogden Stiers Quotes

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David Ogden Stiers

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 31, 1942

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

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

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.

David Ogden Stiers

Cogsworth, the character I did on 'Beauty and the Beast,' could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn't want Cogsworth to become Disney's gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.

David Ogden Stiers

The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.

David Ogden Stiers

People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.

David Ogden Stiers