If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don’t fight back it hurts forever.

About Joel Siegel

Joel Steven Siegelwas an American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over 25 years. The winner of multiple Emmy Awards, Siegel also worked as a radio disc jockey and an advertising copywriter.

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You can’t believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don’t bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

The studio should not have released this film.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don’t fight back it hurts forever.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

They are words you don’t easily forget: I don’t have good news.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

I liked television, and television liked me.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

Follow your passion.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn’t stop till it was over.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it’s the direction.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it’s not fair.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else’s movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn’t such a good film in Spanish, either.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)

Real movie producers aren’t this nice.

Joel Siegel

American film critic and journalist (1943-2007)