quotes about Critics
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There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
-- Alan ParkerSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
-- Alex Kapranos -
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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
-- Allen TateSource : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
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There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
-- Allison Mackie -
When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.
-- Amaury NolascoSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.
-- Angeles Arrien -
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
-- Anish Kapoor -
I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
-- Ansel Adams -
Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.
-- Anthony Burgess -
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
-- Arna BontempsSource : Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead
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There are no more geniuses, only critics.
-- Arnold SchoenbergSource : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.203, Univ of California Press
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I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.
-- Arthur Miller -
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.
-- Artie Lange -
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Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?
-- Augustus William Hare -
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
-- Bernard Williams -
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
-- Brian Lumley -
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
-- Brian LumleySource : "Life Under the Necroscope: An Interview with Brian Lumley". Amazon Interview, www.brianlumley.com.
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Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
-- Brian McKnight -
Every time you start a project, you're hopeful that the critics receive it warmly.
-- Bryan Cranston -
I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.
-- Cary Grant -
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I make my pictures for people, not for critics.
-- Cecil B. DeMilleSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
-- Cecil B. DeMilleSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -
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When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.
-- Charles Saatchi -
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
-- Chris Brogan -
Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.
-- Chuck Eddy -
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I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
-- Chuck Norris -
I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
-- Claude Monet -
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
-- Craig Charles -
Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race.
-- Craig Kilborn -
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I'm a tough critic on myself.
-- Dave FrancoSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.
-- Dave WillisSource : FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Apr 05, 2017
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Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.
-- David Bowie -
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It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.
-- Devon AokiSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.
-- Don Henley -
I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
-- E. J. Hughes -
Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!
-- E.D. BakerSource : E. D. Baker (2010). “The Frog Princess”, p.74, A&C Black
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It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
-- Ed Koch -
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
-- Edmund Clarence StedmanSource : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”
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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
-- Eli WallachSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
-- Elia Kazan -
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I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
Be patient and loving with yourself. You weren't meant to be your biggest critic, but your biggest fan.
-- Emily Kinney -
The critic should describe, and not prescribe....
-- Eugene Ionesco -
Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.
-- Fay Weldon -
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Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
-- Francois TruffautSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.
-- Frank R. Stockton -
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
-- Frederic Chopin -
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If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'
-- Gavin Schmidt -
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
-- George Edward Moore -
I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.
-- Geraldo Rivera -
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I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.
-- Gina Gershon -
The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while
-- Gina Gershon -
I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
-- Graham Nash -
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I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
-- H. G. Wells -
You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.
-- Hans Zimmer -
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
-- Harold Rosenberg -
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
-- Harry Cohn -
It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
-- Henry Edward Manning -
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
-- Hortense Calisher -
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
-- Irwin Shaw -
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
-- Irwin Shaw -
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written
-- Irwin Shaw -
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
-- Irwin Shaw -
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My biggest critics have never read me.
-- Jackie CollinsSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.
-- James PaynSource : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
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What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.
-- Jane Yolen -
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
-- Jean CocteauSource : "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
-- Jean Rostand -
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No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
-- Jean SibeliusSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
-- Jean-Michel Basquiat -
To a critic, no explanation will do. To a fan, no explanation is needed.
-- Jeff JarrettSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.
-- Jeffrey Robinson -
I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.
-- Jerry Lewis -
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
-- Joe Pantoliano -
As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.
-- Joe Regalbuto -