Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies?…

Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back…

— Mel Brooks

Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.

— Sue Perkins

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's…

— Robert Kiyosaki

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

— Ernest Hemingway

Literary critics make natural detectives.

— Anonymous

If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my…

— Jennifer Weiner

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure…

— Ernest Hemingway

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

— Mel Brooks

If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie…

— Alonso Duralde

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

— James Cook

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

— John Waters

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…

— Mark Steyn

I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to…

— Matt Tyrnauer

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett

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…

— Stephen King