The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. — John Simm Copy Share Image
“One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
“Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.” — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people. — John Legend Copy Share Image
See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was. — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Roger Ebert was such a champion of underrepresented filmmakers. He was a very big deal to me. It shows the power of… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Because John McCain stood up, our country is better off. The respect he is given around the world is not because of… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen,… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Critics are important. They give us the reasons, knowingly or unknowingly, not to fall, slumber or deviate from our true purpose .… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward… — John Powell Copy Share Image
I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics. — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth. — T. J. Stiles Copy Share Image
Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
