Critic Quotes

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

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.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

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.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

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

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.'

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.

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.

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