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David Ogden Stiers

David Allen Ogden Stiers (/ˈstaɪ.ərz/; October 31, 1942 – March 3, 2018) was an American actor, voice actor, and conductor. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Stiers was primarily raised in Oregon. He attended the University of Oregon before enrolling at the Juilliard School in New York City, from where he graduated in 1972. He went on to appear in numerous productions on Broadway, and originated the role of Feldman in The Magic Show, in which he appeared for four years between 1974 and 1978.

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

Crafts, Forthcoming, Master, Masters, Orchestra, Orchestras

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

Lear, Love, Played, Three, Three Times

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.

Character, Embrace, Include, Thinking, Way

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

Change, Cold, Cutting, Film, Head, Time

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

High, High School, School, Teacher, Teachers

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

Catch, Hard Work, Holding, People, Writing

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

Ears, Love, Might, People, Tuned

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

Disappointment, Kids, Power, Surround, Surround Sound, Used

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

Depth, Information, Nature, Our Society

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.

Get Better, Hate, Movies, Notion, Tape

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

Friend, Hollywood, Like, Meetings, Met, Mets

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.

Funny, Genuinely, Grown, Making, Men, Years

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

Benefits, Orchestra, Concerts, Benefit, Anywhere

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.

Back, Experience, Giving, Kids, Offer, Open

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.

Died, Father, Men, Simple

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

Actor, Actors, Admire, Long, Running

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.

Different, Live, Orchestra, Pianists, Same, Singers

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

Crapshoot, Operating, Operating Systems, System, Television

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

Mainstream, Man, Men, Religious

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Family, Forgotten, Gets, Inspirational, Mean