Critic Quotes

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

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

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.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

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.

I'm a harsh critic of the status quo.

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 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'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

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.

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

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.

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.

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'm a very vicious critic of myself.