Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of…

I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at…

— Ian Mckellen

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

— Edward Albee

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what…

— Kenneth Tynan

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a…

— Jessalyn Gilsig

From university, I tried to get into the profession almost immediately, and just got kind of kicked back in London, by lots of people…

— James Callis

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory,…

— Lanford Wilson

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few…

— Tony Kushner

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

— Wilson Mizner

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,…

— Aaron Sanchez

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett