Critics Quotes

Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash.

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

A leader must not let critics set the agenda.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

I do count on a changing of tides. All too often, what could be a critics' darling today becomes tomorrow's target. I don't want to be too blasé about it.

I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.

I don't care what critics and other people think.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.

Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he always has.

I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

It’s hard to market a movie when you’re at the mercy of critics and journalists.

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

I mean I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.