Critic Quotes

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.