Critic Quote by David Cross Download Open image “I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.” — David Cross ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critic Critics Cultural Cultural Critic Thought Hoity Toity Cultural
I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself. — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide,… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner. — David Cross Copy Share Image
There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I think for a lot of people, it's just where their saturation point was. Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff and the… — David Cross Copy Share Image
It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed… — David Cross Copy Share Image
You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy. — David Cross Copy Share Image
Most people who have kids are, "Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I was in Antwerp - which, I had about 20 shows left at that point - and a guy said, "That's Dave Attell's." Also,… — David Cross Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself. — Samantha Akkineni Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image