David Ogden Stiers
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
David Ogden StiersEvery 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 StiersSomething 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 StiersI'll always say if something I did isn't stellar. I'll find ways to let it be known that I am not among the soul of this project.
David Ogden StiersHigh school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
David Ogden StiersWhen 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 StiersSpirit is not present in digital. You can tell when performers are committed. All you have to do is offer yourself and be affected by it.
David Ogden StiersYou read each script as you get it and you try not to contradict what you've done before and keep the sense of evolution present.
David Ogden StiersBecause I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
David Ogden StiersI love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
David Ogden StiersWe're not puppets on a string, but the shows are, and they get dangled and placed opposite one another. It's a business. There you are.
David Ogden StiersThere are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent.
David Ogden StiersWe lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
David Ogden StiersVery 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 StiersI am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
David Ogden StiersI love being in the middle of it - listening a bar ahead, helping people achieve a performance, and hopefully not getting in the way of them!
David Ogden StiersI 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 StiersI am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
David Ogden StiersI've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
David Ogden StiersPeople are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
David Ogden StiersIt's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
David Ogden StiersI will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
David Ogden StiersIf it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
David Ogden StiersMy 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 StiersIt's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
David Ogden Stiers
