Critics Quotes

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

Critics are already made.

Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Women critics are amazons in climax.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

I can't hear the critics talking over the applause.

Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not that dumb, and we are not that smart.

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.