Top 1200 Bad Reviews Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.

I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesson is learned seven times deeper than a positive reinforcement.

I'm used to bad reviews.

To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.

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.

Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

I don't read reviews. Just because that is something that's directly connected to my job. I'm doing this because I love it, not because I'm necessarily looking for approval or anything like that. To me, it seems that reading reviews - whether they're good ones or bad ones - can only sort of force the person to divorce themselves from the reality of what it is they do for a living. So I don't read reviews.

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, 'You know that point they made... they were dead on.'

I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.

Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.

I've always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Reviews are great. I can read negative reviews and say, You know that point they made... they were dead on.

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.

I'm so used to bad reviews. I really enjoy them when they're very mean!

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

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

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.

I live in the house bad reviews built.

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.

I think you remember certain phrases from bad reviews. You don't remember all the bad reviews.

The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other reviews are in very small publications or less popular websites, and you just have to be lucky to have the good reviews land in places where more people see them, and bad reviews land in places where they will be less seen.

Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.

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.

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

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.

I've had some bad reviews, but not as bad as the things I could imagine for myself.

When you are one of the best coaches in the world, it is normal to attract bad reviews if you lose a couple of games.

I don't read reviews or interviews or anything, just because I'm afraid; If I believed the good, then I'd believe the bad, and there will be bad.

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.

The critics gave me bad reviews on every movie I made.

I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.

You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.

Reviews are written by people who don't understand the process of sitcom. I don't read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth.

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

I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.

People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.

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.

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

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people tend to think, which artists do to protect themselves against bad reviews.

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

The worst thing is to read bad reviews and go, "Yeah, I agree."

Worse than bad reviews is to be ignored.

I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

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.

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.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.