Dusty Hill Quotes

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here.

I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.

The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.

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.

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Never was I booed.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

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.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.

But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.

Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting review, if you're kind of mean-spirited.

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics.

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

The only critics who annoy me are the ones who come to my shows even when they're clearly not fans of my work.

I've seen many shows ruined by bad reviews and good reviews, so I always tell my actors not to read the reviews until after the run is over.

The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin' us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein' drunk or missin' your woman.