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"Dinner theater is anti-culture." »John Simon
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"Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment." »Alfred Gingold
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." »Gail
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"No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions." »Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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"Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection." »Swordfish
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"No statue has ever been put up to a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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"I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."" »Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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"A critic is a legless man who teaches running." »Channing Pollock
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"A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good." »P. G. Wodehouse
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"It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." »Jean Sibelius
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"There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him." »Author Unknown
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" »Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937
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"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." »James McNeill Whistler
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"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic" »Jean Sibelius
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"Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste." »Whitney Balliett
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"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by." »Christopher Morley
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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan
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"Marriage. Why do we do it Everybody knows the stats. One in two marriages end up in broken dishes and a trip to Tijuana. Is it loneliness Partly. Is it teamwork Definitely. Things just kind of go easier when there's two of you. One of you can wait in line at the movie theater while the other guy parks the car. Get better seats that way. Better room rate when it's a double. Are you ready to file jointly...Above you is the sun and sky. Below you, the ground. Like the sun, your love should be constant, like the ground, solid." »Jed Seidel
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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life." »Henry Van Dyke
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"We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'" »Michel MacLiammir
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"Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time, Each form is exquisite, each block sublime. Or good, or bad,-disfigur'd, or deprav'd,- All art, is at its resurrection sav'd All crown'd with glory in the critic's heav'n, Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven." »Sir Martin Archer Shee
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"critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all." »Lavina Goodell
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"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender." »Jim Bishop
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"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." »Teddy Roosevelt
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"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat"." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt
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