Zitat des Tages von David Ogden Stiers:
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.
A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
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.
If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
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.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
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.
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.
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
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.
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
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 a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
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.
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
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.
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.