History Quotes / ArtistDisillusionment

->''"Robert Beltran has resigned himself to the fact that ''Voyager'' is never going to be the vehicle he hoped it would be and so he limps his way through each episode praying for the end. Watch the way he enters the bridge around 11 minutes 50 seconds into the episode and tries to give a {{technobabble}} explanation about why he vanished in the turbolift. Clearly he has nothing but contempt for the vacuous dialogue he is being given to say."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/voyager-season-seven.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Shattered"

->''"Robert Beltran has resigned himself to the fact that ''Voyager'' [[ArtistDisillusionment is never going to be the vehicle he hoped it would be]] and so he limps his way through each episode praying for the end. Watch the way he enters the bridge around 11 minutes 50 seconds into the episode and tries to give a {{technobabble}} explanation about why he vanished in the turbolift. Clearly he has nothing but contempt for the vacuous dialogue he is being given to say."''

->''"It should be a great story for the Doctor as portrayed by anybody because he gets to enjoy a reunion with the Brigadier (Creator/NicholasCourtney can usually develop chemistry with any actor in the titular role) and face a moral dilemma that any actor worth his salt would get his teeth into. In both of these instances [[Creator/PeterDavison Davison]] lets the side down; his reaction to the Brigadier’s amnesia is one of [[DullSurprise mild annoyance]] where some passion might have [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan knocked the memories back into him]], and he emotes the end of episode three (‘It would mean the end of me as a Time Lord!‘) like he is telling a kid what is on the menu tonight (replace with ‘it would mean ''fingers and chips for tea tonight''[=‘=] and you’ll see what I mean)...I wanted to see a man with the weight of his future lives about to stolen from him not an actor wondering when the coffee break is going to be. Davison was not happy with the scripts for season 20 and these are the moments when it shows. Compared with [[HypercompetentSidekick the complexities that Nicholas Courtney is working into his performance]], Davison's is sadly deficient."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2011/09/season-twenty.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead}} "Mawdryn Undead"]]

->''"I think Tim Russ has become so disillusioned with the show by this point that even he can see that the suggested development for his character in this episode [[StaticCharacter means nothing]] and so he barely bothers to inject any life into his characterisation of the emotional Tuvok. Remember back in season two’s Meld when he portrayed murderous anger so effectively…well he has the chance here to really let go but he breezes his way through the script in an undistinguished fashion. Despite the injection of emotion there is an oddly monosyllabic delivery of the dialogue that is a real bore to endure. The way he whinges and huffs and sulks is somnambulistic -- he is basically Dawn from ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]''! How is this a better alternative to our usual yawnsome Tuvok?"''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/voyager-season-six.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Riddles"

->''"You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid."''

->'''"The experience was so bad for Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin that they’ve referred to it as 'horrible,' and Hewlett turned down what Wikipedia calls a 'big money’ offer from Dreamworks for the film rights to ''{{Gorillaz}}'' rather than lose creative control. But yeah, 'mess' is kind of the word for it."''
-->--'''Matt Wilson''' and '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-tank-girl-review/ on]] ''Film/TankGirl''

->''"''[Gene]'' Hackman has never specifically pointed at ''Welcome to Mooseport'' as the movie that made him retire, but come on. He flat out stopped after this one... The fact that this revelation presumably hit him while working on a completely run-of-the-mill comedy with [[EverybodyLovesRaymond Ray Romano]] is the funniest thing about the movie. Picture grumpy old Gene Hackman sitting silently on a set while someone adjusts a picture of his face [[FanDisservice over the crotch of a nude man]] (that is an actual scene from the movie). Ray Romano comes over, awkwardly displaying his teeth as in every single photo of him that exists, and says in his depressed Kermit voice: 'Are you ready for the scene, Gene?' Hackman slowly turns his head. "[[ThousandYardStare No, Ray. I don't think I am]]." He walks off of the set, starts running, and never stops. They have to finish the movie with CGI. (That's how it went in my imagination, anyway.)"''
-->--'''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-movies-that-made-huge-stars-quit-acting-forever/#ixzz2zGFT8ag5 "5 Movies That Made Huge Stars Quit Acting Forever"]]

->''"We were ''supposed'' to feel fooled and betrayed by [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]]. This should be obvious from playing the game and studying its constant themes of layered deception, but history has proven that [[MagnumOpusDissonance most people never got the joke]] or appreciated his sly attempt at making (what matches his own definition of) art. {{Postmodernism}} has that effect... If so, then perhaps the universal backlash he received was enough to convince him that games could not be art after all, hence his answer in ''[an]'' interview."''

->''"We were ''supposed'' to feel fooled and betrayed by [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]]. This should be obvious from playing the game and studying its constant themes of layered deception, but history has proven [[ViewersAreMorons that most people never got the joke]] or appreciated his sly attempt at making (what matches his own definition of) art. {{Postmodernism}} has that effect... If so, then perhaps the universal backlash he received was enough to convince him that games could not be art after all, hence his answer in ''[an]'' interview."''

-> ''"After reading a few thousand emails like the [[WhatAnIdiot ones]] [[FanDumb above]], I seriously contemplated taking down my site and just posting links to animal porn for you retards. You're all idiots, and I've lost what little respect I had for you."''

->''"One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what [[LowestCommonDenominator they themselves regard as pernicious nonsense]]...Such work cannot bring any real satisfaction, and in the course of reconciling himself to the doing of it, a man has to make himself so cynical that he can no longer derive whole-hearted satisfaction from anything whatever...Without self-respect genuine happiness is scarcely possible. And the man who is ashamed of his work can hardly achieve self-respect.”''
-->--'''Bertrand Russell'''

-->-- '''Dave Chappelle''' to a heckling audience

-->-- '''Dave Chappelle''', creator of ChappellesShow

-> ''"The flattery is disarming and ego-stoking, but then [[FridgeHorror neurons fire and alarm bells go off]]. "You have succeeded with this movie, but you've also failed. You gave these people hope to [[IgnoredEpiphany become greater asses]] than they may already be."''
--> -- '''Stanley Weiser''', co-scriptwriter of ''WallStreet'', on Gordon Gekko's MisaimedFandom.

->--'''Editor/Writer Glenn Greenberg''' on ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''

->''"We were ''supposed'' to feel fooled and betrayed by [[Creator/HideoKojima Kojima]]. This should be obvious from playing the game and studying its constant themes of layered deception, but history has proven [[ViewersAreMorons that most people never got the joke]] or appreciated his sly attempt at making (what matches his own definition of) art. {{Postmodernism}} has that effect... If so, then perhaps the universal backlash he received was enough to convince him that games could not be art after all, and hence his answer in ''[an]'' interview."''

-> ''"The flattery is disarming and ego-stoking, but then [[FridgeHoror neurons fire and alarm bells go off]]. "You have succeeded with this movie, but you've also failed. You gave these people hope to [[IgnoredEpiphany become greater asses]] than they may already be."''

-> ''"The flattery is disarming and ego-stoking, but then neurons fire and alarm bells go off. "You have succeeded with this movie, but you've also failed. You gave these people hope to [[IgnoredEpiphany become greater asses]] than they may already be."''

->''"''AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #406'' was J.M. DeMatteis's last issue as writer. I think he grew increasingly weary of [[CrisisCrossover the weekly cross-title continuity]], and never getting the chance to tell his own stories -- stories in which he alone could do the beginning, the middle and the end. This couldn't have been an easy decision for J.M. to make, because I know how much he liked Ben Reilly and how excited he was about the clone saga from the very start. But I think he just reached the breaking point, and I can't say I really blame him. I know Marc was really looking forward to the moment when Ben would finally [[LegacyCharacter don the Spider-Man suit]], and getting the chance to write about the "new" web-slinger, but that pivotal moment just kept [[StatusQuoIsGod getting pushed further and further back]], amidst more and more gimmicky crossovers and an overall series direction that was spiraling out of control. So, unfortunately, he left."''

-> ''"The flattery is disarming and ego-stoking, but then neurons fire and alarm bells go off. "You have succeeded with this movie, but you've also failed. You gave these people hope to become greater asses than they may already be."''

->"You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid."
-->-- '''Dave Chappelle''', creator of ChappellesShow

"You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid."
-->-- [[ChappellesShow Dave Chappelle]]

-> ''"After reading a few thousand emails like the [[WhatAnIdiot ones above]], I seriously contemplated taking down my site and just posting links to animal porn for you retards. You're all idiots, and I've lost what little respect I had for you."''

-> "After reading a few thousand emails like the [[WhatAnIdiot ones above]], I seriously contemplated taking down my site and just posting links to animal porn for you retards. You're all idiots, and I've lost what little respect I had for you."

->''"The flattery is disarming and ego-stoking, but then neurons fire and alarm bells go off. "You have succeeded with this movie, but you've also failed. You gave these people hope to become greater asses than they may already be."''
-->-- '''Stanley Weiser''', co-scriptwriter of ''WallStreet'', on Gordon Gekko's MisaimedFandom.