Quotes by David Ogden Stiers - Page 1

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Men
Mainstream
Religious
Man I Am Am
Certainly
Religious Man
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Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Family
Inspirational
Forgotten
Left
Mean
Vocabulary Words
Behind
Gets
Means
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If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Listened
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I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Lear
Three
Three Times
Played
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I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Running
Actors
Long
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High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Teacher
High School
School
Teachers
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It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Character
Engaged
Engagement
Important
Involved
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In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Operating Systems
Television
Crapshoot
Operating
Operating System
System
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It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Hollywood
Meetings
Mets
Rare
Meeting
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I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Crafts
Forthcoming
Masters
Orchestra
Me Will Never
Craft
Master
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A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Income
Programming
Derived
Disney
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There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Couple
Play
Roles
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A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Commitment
Outcomes
Scheduling
Affects
Boils
Network
Outcome
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I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Anime
Done
Film
Forgotten
Spirited
Version
Japanese
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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Benefits
Concerts
Orchestra
Anywhere
Benefit
Concert
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I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Ears
Halls
Might
People
Love People Go
Love People Who
Concert
Otherwise
Tuned
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People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Hands
Nice
People
Tick
Giant
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We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Depth
Disposable
Information
Lament
Our Society
Speed
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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Hard Work
People
Writing
Work Hard Work Difficult
Work Hard Work People
Catch
Work Difficult People
Generating
Holding
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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.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Kids
Corny
Disappointment
Sound
Speakers
Surround
Surround Sound
Theater
Concert
Concert Hall
Hall
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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 / Actor
Cold
Cutting
Electrical
Film
Print
Change Time Never
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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 / Actor
Orchestra
Preservation
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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 / Actor
Half
Hollywood
Remembered
Years
Hour
Hour And A Half
La
Meeting
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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.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Men
Affection
Died
Father
Honest Man
Simple
Years Ago
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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.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Experience
Kids
Music
Clear
Giving
Pay
Stillness
Music Yourself Your
Experience Yourself Your
Back
Open
Give
Pays
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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.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Character
Embrace
Thinking
Way
Extreme
Include
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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.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Experience
Dvds
Littles
Player
Holding
Occur
Portable
Unit
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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.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Get Better
Hate
Notion
Pilots
Tape
Shelf
Videotape
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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 / Actor
Fireworks
Fun
Great Music
Orchestra
Inside
Nobody
Music Great Fun
Happen
Hear
Interior
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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.
David Ogden Stiers / Actor
Funny
Men
Grown Man
Moments
Years
Genuinely
Grown
Noises
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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 / Actor
Deeper
Different
Orchestra
Singers
Begins
Same
Itself
Conductors
Slowly
Hear
Reveals
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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 / Actor
Beast
Cartoon
Flamboyant
Basically
Disney
Onscreen
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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 / Actor
Commit
Excellence
Orchestra
Important People Will
Bald
Neighbors
Ordinarily
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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 / Actor
Christmas
Breeze
Dialogue
Explanation
Strive
David
Director
Float
Sharp
Tremble
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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 / Actor
Uplifting
Bores
Invites
Serious
Sitting
Tears
Complex
Grab
Lesson
Simple Act
Spiritually
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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 / Actor
Desire
Discretion
Gay Rights
Noble
Twilight
Life Time I Am
Life Time Me
Extreme
Admit
Claim
Partner
Reasons
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