Best 20 quotes of David Ogden Stiers on MyQuotes

A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.