David Hyde Pierce Quotes

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

I always think extremism is basically a reaction out of fear. What we seem to be experiencing is polar extremism that keeps people from coming together.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Most of us aren't crazy psychotics, but most of us are a whole bunch of different people. I think when you are in a position of authority, that doesn't remove that from you.

I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman.

Her lips said 'no', but her eyes said 'read my lips'.

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.