Critics Quotes · Page 87

Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

— Justin Timberlake

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

— Walt Disney

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't…

— Roger Ebert

I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm…

— Wole Soyinka

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are…

— Al Pacino

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

— Nile Rodgers

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

— Austin O'Malley

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated,…

— Virginia Woolf

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason…

— John Irving

Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners…

— Anonymous

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

— Anthony Burgess

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

— Anthony Trollope

It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand…

— Miles Millar

We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there…

— Richard Shepard

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or…

— kurt Vonnegut

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. No sports writer would say, "Well the Yankees had a great…

— Jerry Saltz

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody .”

— Abraham Lincoln

Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.

— Paul Bocuse

“Those who lack the guts to create critic.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same…

— Nat King Cole

I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I…

— Dan Harmon

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

— Libba Bray

Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face,…

— Buster Keaton

Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at…

— Channing Tatum