Bad Reviews Quotes

• A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

  Kingsley Amis

  Lunch, Breakfast, May

  "Aren't We Due a Royalty Statement?". Book by Giles Gordon, 1993.

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• From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Fall, Writing

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Gold: the final science fiction collection”, Harper Prism

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• If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks

  Susan Egan

  Risk, Enough, Reviews

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• No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

  Roger Ebert

  Matter, Charging, Bad Movies

  Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.22, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

  Wes Anderson

  Levels, Different, Reviews

  "The World According to Wes". "Conversations with Slate" with Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.

  Werner Herzog

  Night, Insomnia, Reviews

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• Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

  Ann Patchett

  Crush, Criticism, Goes On

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• I get a sick joy out of bad reviews. I don't read good reviews.

  Evan Goldberg

  Sick, Joy, Reviews

  Source: collider.com

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• Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Nice, People, Guy

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I'd love to work on something that gets some type of critical respect. This business is sometimes so brutal - you work on something for months and really feel like the project is good and you're doing the best work you can, and then it just gets hammered by critics. It's such a bummer sometimes, because everything seems to build up to the release and a couple of bad reviews can make it seem like it was all a waste, which you know it wasn't.

  Jeff Cardoni

  Couple, Waste, Months

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• I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

  Steve Martin

  Years, Criticism, Remember

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• It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

  Robert Ludlum

  Love You, People, Theatre

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• Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

  Frank Sinatra

  Numbers, People, Reviews

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• If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Credit, Too Much

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

  Neil Diamond

  Ignored, Reviews

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• I live in the house bad reviews built.

  Paul Stanley

  House, Reviews, Built

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• Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

  Taylor Swift

  Ruins, Reviews

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• A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, Cake, Literature

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  Daniel Craig

  Believe, Reviews, Believe In Me

  "Seven's deadly sins". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.

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• I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

  Jenny Agutter

  Believe, Reading, Thinking

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• One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

  Seth Godin

  Honor, Criticism, Ruins

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.47, Penguin

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• Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.

  Art Buchwald

  Real, Book, Years

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• I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Wife, Good Things, Reviews

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• Every year I tell myself that I’m not going to read any reviews and then I do. We’re all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it’s part of the game, you’re going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that’s how it goes. I don’t write for the reviews.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Writing, Thinking

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

  Anish Kapoor

  Reviews, Critics, Stride

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