David Ogden Stiers

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character. ”

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. ”

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

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

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