I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.
I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.
'Obsession' has a bad rap.
Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down.
Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
If you take yourself too seriously, something like a bad review could put you off your stride.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
I can't recall a bad review - maybe I'm due one. But the worst thing would be if somebody said I was inaudible. Reach your audience's ears - only then can you reach their hearts.
Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.
One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.
If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
I'd like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.
If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing.
