Stiers Quotes

#1. 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.

David Ogden Stiers

#2. 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.

David Ogden Stiers

#3. I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

David Ogden Stiers

#4. I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.

Landon Liboiron

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

David Ogden Stiers

#6. I thought for sure you were about to ravish her. I've read a lot of books, and that was just like a scene that ends with the hero ravishing the maiden."
"I was closer to strangling her."
The little old lady chuckles in a knowing kind of way. "That's a different kind of book, sonny.

Emma Chase

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

David Ogden Stiers

#8. We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.

Heidi Jon Schmidt

#9. In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

David Ogden Stiers

#10. There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.

Giordano Bruno

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

#16. I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

David Ogden Stiers

#17. 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.

David Ogden Stiers

#18. If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

David Ogden Stiers

#19. 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.

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

#21. 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.

David Ogden Stiers

#22. So how do you know Vampires aren't just some legend made up to scare little kids into minding their parents?"
Adam's voice was full of scorn. "Because you and I exist and we're descendants of Fate and Time.

April White

#23. Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

Alexander Mackenzie

#24. 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.

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

#26. I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

David Ogden Stiers

#27. Every 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 Stiers

#28. I'm quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids.

Margrethe Vestager

#29. 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.

David Ogden Stiers

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

David Ogden Stiers

#31. Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Margaret Atwood

#32. That was a tall order for Ivy. Sarcasm was kind of her native tongue, though she was fluent in "stern disappointment" and "light condescension" as well. She was also a good friend. Well, imaginary friend.

Brandon Sanderson

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

David Ogden Stiers

#34. 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.

David Ogden Stiers

#35. Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

Buzz Aldrin

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

David Ogden Stiers

#37. Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.

David Ogden Stiers

#38. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

David Ogden Stiers