Critics Quotes

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Children need models rather than critics.

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.