Critics Quotes

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

I never wish for critics.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

All critics should be assassinated.

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

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 a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.