David Ogden Stiers Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

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

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

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

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.

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.