Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved… — John Milius
There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience. — Richard O'Brien
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of… — Dorothea Brande
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity. — Carolyn Wells
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics. — Chris Brogan
When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the… — Randy Pausch
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.… — Jerry Saltz
Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you’ve come… — Chelsea Handler
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. — Arna Bontemps
You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very… — Mischa Elman
I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love… — Norman Rockwell
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. — Harold Rosenberg
Some critics will say Coca-Cola made a marketing mistake. Some cynics will say that we planned the whole thing. The truth is we are not… — Donald Keough
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions… — Robertson Davies
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows? — Christian Slater
There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other… — Deborah Meier
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic… — Claude Monet
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are… — C.S. Lewis
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. — Benjamin Disraeli
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. — Billy Wilder
As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or… — Bobby Vinton
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. — David Low
A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon… — Leon Uris

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