Critic Quotes

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

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.

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

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.

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.

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.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

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.

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

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.

It's funny to be a 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.

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.

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.