Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you…

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

— Lando Norris

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

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

— Samantha Akkineni

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

— Dennis Haysbert

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The…

— Stephen Hunter

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

— Frederic Raphael

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

— Pauline Kael

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

“A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.”

— Raheel Farooq

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

— Mason Cooley

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez,…

— Aaron Sanchez