Critics Quotes
The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.
I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.
Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Most snarky critics had their minds set before ever seeing/playing the game. I'm proud of what we created; it's innovative, responsive & fun.
The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice
Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.
Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.
Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.
People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.
