Quotes About Theatre Critics

#1. More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

Craig Brown

#2. Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Tim Crouch

#3. I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) ... I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

Noel Coward

#4. I'm going to pull you under and drown you in me until you can't forget.

Ella Frank

#5. We'll see what he says when I stab him with my stiletto.

Victoria Ashley

#6. So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.

Shunryu Suzuki

#7. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Thomas Paine

#8. I attacked him, he healed me, then he took me hunting, I threatened him, and he took me home. Wow. That was like a date.

Juliann Whicker

#9. I milked my typical persona as a gritty, intellectual sex-positive feminist that men loved to conquer, toss aside, and shove into their conquest collection in the dusty backs of their closets.

Maggie Young

#10. I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

Elizabeth Taylor

#11. The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

Anton Chekhov

#12. I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

Marian Seldes

#13. Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

Bill Burr

#14. All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

Marc Chagall

#15. It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

Friedrich Nietzsche