22 David Ogden Stiers Quotes for You to Enjoy

David Ogden Stiers

American Actor

Born: Oct 31, 1942

Died: Mar 3, 2018

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

Commitment Down Outcome Network Scheduling Affects Lot Boils

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. David Ogden Stiers

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

Spirited Anime Version Done Forgotten Japanese English Film Away

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

Funny Man Recording Through Absolutely Noises Make Because Genuinely Making Very Often Moments Ridiculous Grown Grown Man

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

You People Nice Second-Hand Enough Giant Tick Hear Hand Second

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot. David Ogden Stiers

You Television System Operating Operating System Go Crapshoot

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated. David Ogden Stiers

True Listened Right

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

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I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. David Ogden Stiers

Me Will Master Never Very Craft Orchestra Forthcoming

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man. David Ogden Stiers

Man Religious Religious Man Mainstream Am Certainly

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

Time Change Every Cold Every Time Something Never Head Print Because Hear Off Goes Going Cut Electrical Film

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

Love Three Would Lear Times Again Played

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

Character Important Stay Involved Really Engaged

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming. David Ogden Stiers

Family Programming Has-Been Been Lot Disney Derived Income

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. David Ogden Stiers

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. David Ogden Stiers

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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. David Ogden Stiers

Music Great You Interior Inside Spirit About Great Music Fireworks Nobody Knows Hear Going Orchestra Happen Your Fun Playing

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. David Ogden Stiers

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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. David Ogden Stiers

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