Critics Quotes

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.