David Ogden Stiers Quotes

• 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.

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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.

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  Tags in Noise

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Self, Music, Kids

• 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.

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  Tags in Think, Character

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

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  Tags in People, Stories

• 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.

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  Tags in Self

• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

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David Ogden Stiers (28)

Birth:	31st October, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Conductor, Television Director

About

David Ogden Stiers was born in Peoria, Illinois. He is an American actor, TV director and conductor, noted for his roles in Disney animated films, the television series M*A*S*H and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone. He is also known for the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in the Perry Mason TV movies. Stiers first appeared in the Broadway production The Magic Show in 1974 in the minor role of Feldman. Stiers is the associate conductor for the Newport Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival. He has guest conducted over 70 orchestras around the world.

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