Will Chase Quotes

I often don't read reviews.

I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.

Acting is very subjective and one can't be deterred by what people think of your work.

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.

I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

I don't generally read reviews.

That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

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.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's going to be a certain amount of criticism because that's kind of what happens.

One thing I don't do anymore is read or pay attention to the critical response, which is a bummer because when I started, and when I was in school, I loved to read old film criticism.

Some people like my singing. But it sounds like bad singing to a lot of other people.

I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review.

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

We can't figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.

I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.

If you ask my opinion, I don't look at a film according to its box office collection.

It's for people to judge if my acting is good or bad.

When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.