Quotes About Theater Critics

#1. Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

Tallulah Bankhead

#2. By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Winston Churchill

#3. Collin Jackson was a little before my time and he was a really good athlete. I've raced with him, but he's now retired. He's a really good role model and someone that I've learnt a lot from.

Liu Xiang

#4. If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal.

Terry Pratchett

#5. There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Aaron Sorkin

#6. We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

Michael Bay

#7. Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here."
Major Major could barely recognize him because he was wearing a faded maroon corduroy bathrobe with open seams under both arms, linty flannel pajamas, & worn house slippers with one flapping sole.

Joseph Heller

#8. It's not the dress ... it's the way you see me.

Holly Hunter

#9. And I guess the thing that I really sort of rely on in me is that I love racing and I love competing and so I know that you know when the time comes and the pressure's on and I have to swim well, I'm sort of able to pull it out and sort of get the best out of myself.

Stephanie Rice

#10. Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Martin H. Fischer

#11. Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

Edward Albee

#12. Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

Terry Rossio