David Ogden Stiers Quotes

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• If it’s right and true, it’s listened to and accommodated.

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

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

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

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

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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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