David Ogden Stiers Quotes

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.'

I would love to play Richard III.

I'm an actor of the theater.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

I would love to play Henry IV, Henry V, and Hamlet.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

I think Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet' would be my favorite role. I've never played it, but I would love to do it.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'

I'd love to do some theater.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I played comedies and dramas.

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

It's important to do research. I do that in every play, every actor does.

As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.