“To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, It is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.” IfsWayHumansMeanHelpingRealityRunningHuman BeingsPrinciplesTheoryDramaFindingsCriticismScientistCriticsExperimentsBest WayOpennessAlliesRenaissanceAdvocacyCourtroom Author:Martin Seligman
“I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.” WellsPersonsFactsSchoolFeltDramaCriticismLuckNotes Author:Charlie Cox
“... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.” IfsArtFaithActorsActingDramaCriticismAbuseTheaterBlindSeekingProtectionActressesSavagesDishonor Author:Nance O'Neil
“A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.” PersonsDramaCriticismSurpriseCriticsTheatrePlaywrightInformingBig Surprises Author:Wilson Mizner
“I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesHumorFunnyNightDramaCriticismCriticsTheatreClever Author:Noel Coward
“I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.” ThinkingFeelsWritingMayTeachTeacherRiskIdentityDramaCriticismTradeCriticsObviousProfessionCompulsionConvenience Author:Richard Gilman