American - Actor | October 31, 1942 - March 3, 2018
I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
David Ogden Stiers
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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.
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It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.
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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
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There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
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I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
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It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
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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.
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A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.
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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.
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I think the preservation of orchestras and what they do is worth expending all the ways there are to reach out to people who might not otherwise go.
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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.
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