Peter Criss Quotes

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

And generally the shows I'm in fail really big.

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

Oh, some of my films have been attacked with absolute vitriol!

'Karzzz' was a mistake.

I have no issues if audiences don't like a film or a performance, and the film doesn't do well. My problem is when they say that the film was good and performances were excellent, but the film didn't run. I have a problem when that happens.

I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop.

The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.

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.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

Every movie I touched bombed.

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.

There are movies that we have done that haven't come out very well. That doesn't feel very good. But 'Jem' is in a different category. I'm proud of the movie. I stand by the movie, but I'm obviously sorry it didn't do any better.

There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment.

Now a lot of people tell me that 'Daud' was ahead of its times. But when it came out, it was panned more than any of my films.

The minute we first started recording 'Defend Yourself,' I thought, 'Yeah. We're going to have to deal with a really terrible review from Pitchfork for this record.'

Not everyone who writes about you is going to be a fan of your music.

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 read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.

The fans want a nice game, and when not everything goes so well, they have every right to boo.

We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when we put so much into it and the critics bomb us.