David Ogden Stiers Quotes

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- 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

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 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

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

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- 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

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.

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- David Ogden Stiers

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

- 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

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

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- 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, 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

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

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

- David Ogden Stiers

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

- 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

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

- David Ogden Stiers