David Ogden Stiers Quotes

People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don't shy away from it.

If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.

I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

What I love about the way folks have interacted with me over the years is that they just want to make eye contact and for me to say something nice.

There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.

It's a human thing to want to spend time with people you know well.

As an adult, you want to connect with people, and you want to feel accepted.

I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

Each friend represents a world in us.

I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.