Her Quote by Finty Williams

We were surrounded by people who saw that in me. Milton Berle's mother told my mother, 'She has talent.'

— Leslie Uggams

Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

— Eugene O'Neill

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles';…

— John Lahr

“I think that's what changed you, Beth. Your job. The film critic. Critics are parasites. They live off other people's creativity. They bring nothing…

— Rainbow Rowell

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her…

— Rufus Wainwright

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

— Charlotte Bronte

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

— Steven Berkoff

“The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever…

— Nikki Grimes

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript…

— Augusten Burroughs

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The…

— Gena Rowlands

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother…

— Kim Cattrall

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske