David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiersis an American actor, voice actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney animated films, the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the supernatural fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy. He is also known for the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in the Perry Mason TV movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth31 October 1942
CityPeoria, IL
CountryUnited States of America
You read each script as you get it and you try not to contradict what you've done before and keep the sense of evolution present.
I've only got about a 3-hour window for recording. After the two-and-a-half hour mark, you can't hear critically what you're doing anymore.
The world moves so quickly. We need more and more the things that are true, because we embrace them and offer our spiritual credulity to them.
I'm actually recording for PBS, doing some pickups for a narration I did on Chicago. When you're doing a biography of a town, I'm your voice!
There are moments when you wish you had had two more rehearsals, but the architecture is there, and the playing is often more than competent.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.