Reviews Quotes - Page 3

• I don’t really read reviews… That’s not where my attention goes.

  Lena Dunham

  Attention

  "Emmys 2012: Lena Dunham Says She Never Thought of Herself as a 'Funny Person'". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

  Drake

  Strong, People, Mind

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• There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

  Louis C. K.

  Tv Shows, Two, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. May 23, 2007.

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• When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

  Scott Adams

  People, Boss, Stories

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

  Nick Cave

  Ideas, Kind, Shame

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• I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

  Kim Cattrall

  Bigs, Big Heads, Ifs

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• My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

  Sandra Bullock

  Movie, Interesting, Actors

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• I never read reviews of something I want to see.

  Jeff Bridges

  Want

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• I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

  Kevin Bacon

  Years, People, My Own

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• As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

  Kevin Bacon

  Break Up, New York, Make Or Break

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• Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Giving, Looks

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

  Roger Ebert

  Objective Truth, Reactions, Should

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

  Marc Jacobs

  Thinking, Coats, Jackets

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• Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Nuclear, Four

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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

  Werner Herzog

  Night, Insomnia, Sleepless Nights

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• If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.

  Robin Hayes

  Fall, People, Judicial Review

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• As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

  Joanne Harris

  Criticism, Way, Coping

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• When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

  Scott Hamilton

  Want, Turns, Entertainers

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• I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Mean, Tired

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• I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

  John Grisham

  Meaningful, Hate, Writing

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• When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Gay, America, Roles

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• I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Selfish, Expectations, Sake

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• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  Federico Fellini

  Hype, Awkward, Misery

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'

  Paul Engle

  Home, Holiday, Horizon

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• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  Fiona Apple

  Dad, Giving, Criticism

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