59 Quotes by David Ogden Stiers

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.

There are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent.

I love being in the middle of it - listening a bar ahead, helping people achieve a performance, and hopefully not getting in the way of them!

Spirit is not present in digital. You can tell when performers are committed. All you have to do is offer yourself and be affected by it.

I think our spirits are exceedingly important. I love the notion of congregating for the purpose of being uplifted without words.

We're not puppets on a string, but the shows are, and they get dangled and placed opposite one another. It's a business. There you are.

I've only got about a 3-hour window for recording. After the two-and-a-half hour mark, you can't hear critically what you're doing anymore.

You read each script as you get it and you try not to contradict what you've done before and keep the sense of evolution present.

The world moves so quickly. We need more and more the things that are true, because we embrace them and offer our spiritual credulity to them.