David Hyde Pierce Quotes

• Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Grandfather

• Don’t you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It’s like you ordered wrong.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Feel

• From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between… and sometimes in the same moment.

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  Topics in Funny

• I don’t have the time to tell you all the things I’ve learned from this cast. It’s an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Support

• I don’t remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

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  Topics in College

  Tags in Time, Relationship

• I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn’t find any at all.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Later

• I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

  I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Salesman

• I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it’s a good job that will continue.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Good

• I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Valley

• I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I’d end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Parents

• I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible… but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Wonderful

• I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

• Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it’s always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Important

• Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, I’m finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You’re not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Enjoyment

• My dad had been an actor… not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

  David Hyde Pierce

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Great

• On some level in acting, what you’re trying to find is truth, because when it’s true is when it’s also funny.

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in True

• People can be a hoot on the set, but if they’re not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Good

• Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Situation

• The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn’t tell him the dog’s name.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interview

• There’s nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don’t want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Viewers

David Hyde Pierce (23)

Birth:	3rd April, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian

About

David Hyde Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing the psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series during the show's run. In 2001, he starred in the cult 1980s summer camp comedy Wet Hot American Summer as the befuddled astrophysicist, Prof. Henry Newman. In 2005, Pierce joined Tim Curry and others in the stage production of Spamalot. On November 19, 2007, Pierce was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Niagara University in Lewiston, New York.

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