I`m at the point now where I know I`m doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I`m not in the box. I don`t want to make it too easy for people and I don`t want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. I f...
Nicolas Cage
I got a review when I was starting in live television. This guy Jack O`Brian called me "hammy and overwrought". Now I`m looking back on it, I`d like to hold on to those reviews. It keeps you in perspective. It really does. Part of you says, "You know, I n...
Robert Redford
[on the success of his movie Blackboard Jungle (1955)] "Sure, the reviews were great...but you would`ve thought they`d picked me up out of an ashtray, and made me a star. Hell, I`d already done Shakespeare and Chekhov and all those other cats."
Vic Morrow
[Talking to critics about her reviews for "The Mask of Virtue" (1935), her second play on the London stage] "It`s much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."
Vivien Leigh
I know writers who claim not to read their notices, or not to be hurt by the bad ones if they do, and I actually believe two of these individuals. I`m one of the other kind - I obsess over the possibility of bad reviews and brood over them when they come....
Stephen King
It`s in the same way that I don`t read my reviews. I try not to get involved in all that stuff because what`s important to me is the work and however the work lives in the world is out of my control.
Kerry Washington
I often regret my good reviews, because there is no point in doing something I know to be inferior and then I find I have come off the best in the film. Wouldn`t you find that worrying?
Robert Mitchum
I only read the reviews of my films if they`re amusing. Six books have been written about me but I`ve only met two of the authors. They get my name and birthplace wrong in the first paragraph. From there it`s all downhill.
Robert Mitchum
The German press is not friendly to me. I can compare it to the US press. I had 25 percent really bad reviews, like, "Oh, a Boll movie. Typical trash." But some said it was "by far Boll`s best movie." They compared it to, not "Lord of the Rings," but some...
Uwe Boll
I don`t want to be in the mainstream. I don`t want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That`s why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I`m in deep ...
John Carpenter
I`ve never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I`m a successful filmmaker - in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, an...
Stanley Kubrick
When people say a John Wayne picture got bad reviews, I always wonder if they know it`s a redundant sentence, but hell, I don`t care. People like my pictures and that`s all that counts.
John Wayne
Ever since those reviews for Showgirls (1995), it`s like I was that woman in "The Scarlet Letter". Except that instead of having to wear the letter "A" for adulteress, I was condemned to wear an "S" for "showgirl".
Elizabeth Berkley
Pauline Kael reviewed The Day of the Locust (1975): "There`s nothing specifically wrong with Donald Sutherland`s performance. It`s just awful." That was the most destructive, stupid piece of criticism I`ve ever received. I stopped reading reviews after th...
Donald Sutherland
Aw, man, is that the only adjective they know? It`s like every time I make a goddamn movie, the word quirky" is hauled out in the American reviews. Now I see it`s being applied to Wes Anderson, too. All of a sudden, his films are quirky. And Sofia Coppola...
Jim Jarmusch
I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.
Robert Mitchum
[on Charles Bronson] I don`t think reviews get to Charlie much, though, unless they`re especially personal. In the twenty-five years or so I`ve known him, he`s not changed much. He`s his own man. Stays pretty much to himself. If he cares what other people...
Richard Crenna
I get kicked around by critics all the time. I can count on one hand the amount of really good reviews I`ve had for anything I`ve done - in 25 years of Genesis, 30 years of my own career - people have dismissed it out of hand.
Phil Collins
[answering the bad reviews he got on his last movie, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)] If they don`t like it, they are bloody idiots. A diplomat falls in love with a prostitute - what better story can they get than that?
Charlie Chaplin
I don`t read reviews. I can always spot an actor who`s read his reviews, because if they`re good, he`s swaying about the stage, and if they`re bad, he`s changed his performance. He comes in limping or something.
Joseph Fiennes
I don`t read reviews. I can always spot an actor who`s read his reviews, because if they`re good, he`s swaying about the stage, and if they`re bad, he`s changed his performance. He comes in limping or something.
Joseph Fiennes
You can find a lot of entertainment stuff in there, a lot of restaurant reviews that might not necessarily be part of the restaurants that are recommended by hostels or tourist agencies,
Ashlee McGee
When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam Sandler
I`m at the point now where I know I`m doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I`m not in the box. I don`t want to make it too easy for people and I don`t want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual. I f...
Nicolas Cage
