Words matter. These are the best David Ogden Stiers Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
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.
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
Because I don’t take money, I’ll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people’s attention and holding it are very difficult.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
There are a couple of roles I haven’t played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I’m never going to change that film.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
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.
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
High school music teachers… nobody makes a living off it.
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.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
I’d forgotten I’d done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
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.
If it’s right and true, it’s listened to and accommodated.
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
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.
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.
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.
It’s rare to be treated like a friend you haven’t met in a Hollywood meeting.
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.
I’ve played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
It’s really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
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.
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.
