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• A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.

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

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

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

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• I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

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

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

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

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• I’d forgotten I’d done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

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

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• If it’s right and true, it’s listened to and accommodated.

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

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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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• It’s really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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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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David Ogden Stiers (28)

Birth:	31st October, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Conductor, Television Director

About

David Ogden Stiers was born in Peoria, Illinois. He is an American actor, TV director and conductor, noted for his roles in Disney animated films, the television series M*A*S*H and the science fiction drama The Dead Zone. He is also known for the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in the Perry Mason TV movies. Stiers first appeared in the Broadway production The Magic Show in 1974 in the minor role of Feldman. Stiers is the associate conductor for the Newport Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival. He has guest conducted over 70 orchestras around the world.

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