Critic Quotes · Page 18

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then…

— Amy Winehouse

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete…

— Reggie Bush

If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great…

— Ben Brantley

I have a very focused agenda. And I hold myself to the highest standards. I judge myself more harshly than any voter,…

— Kathy Hochul

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

— Robin Sharma

It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on…

— Robin Williams

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

— Margaret Fuller

I'm hardest on myself. I'm my biggest critic. I ended up hurting myself a lot by doing that.

— Shaun Livingston

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and…

— Jonathan Raban

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social…

— Wesley Morris

“Have you ever gotten a bad review, Master Huud?" "Hundreds of them." "Do they hurt?" "Of course. But you get over it.…

— Katie Waitman

Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or…

— Soha Ali Khan

To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really…

— Jason Aldean

I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know…

— Lucy R. Lippard

“Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the…

— Mark Kermode

I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating…

— Aunjanue Ellis

The best critics leave the reader curious to pursue something further, but still to let the reader have his or her own…

— Michael Hersch

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

— Frederic Raphael

As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.

— Parul Sehgal

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

— Tony Gonzalez

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

— John Ruskin

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

— Walter Kirn

My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and…

— Hansika Motwani

[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before…

— Tallulah Bankhead

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

— Gordon Ramsay

I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in…

— Colson Whitehead

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting…

— E. B. White

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

— Michael Haneke

What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own…

— Cate Blanchett

To my younger self, I would say not to be so hard on yourself. I think that you are your biggest critic.

— Madison Beer

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.

— Suniel Shetty

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's…

— Troy Glaus

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really.…

— Ricky Gervais

“critics are extremely insecure. they don't really know what's going on, they're democrats when it comes to politics but fascists when it…

— Paolo Coelho

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or…

— James Whistler

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— David Edelstein

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

— Patrick Kavanagh