David Ogden Stiers Quotes

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• I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
• I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
• High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
• Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in…
• Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
• A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
• Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
• Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
• I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
• I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
• I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
• I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

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