David Ogden Stiers

Actor

1942-10-31

Quotes by David Ogden Stiers

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

  Read quote

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

  Read quote

• 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.

  Read quote

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

  Read quote

• The ebulliently sharp mind of 'White Christmas' director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively 'simple' dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn't need 'explanation,' just energy and truth.

  Read quote

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

  Read quote

• 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.

  Read quote