David Ogden Stiers Quotes
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It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
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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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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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I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
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A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
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If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
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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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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.
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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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I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
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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.
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A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.