Critic Quotes

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. Nile Rodgers
Yourself Speak Overcome Own Think Worst Critic Judging The Hardest Thing Being Your Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Oliver Goldsmith
You World Better Critic Shall Could Write Written How Want Show
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. P. G. Wodehouse
Good Dark Seen Dramatic Critic Out Come Daytime Course Up Anybody After Ever
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living. Park Chan-wook
Director First Living Films Critic Had Couple Make Became Becoming Turn Successful Film
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Pauline Kael
Rest Independent Critic Only Advertising Source Information
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Pauline Kael
Rest Independent Critic Only Advertising Source Arts Information
My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me. Randeep Hooda
Family Me Background Critic Give Give Me Point Point Of View Since Supportive Come Audience Been Very Biggest View
In 2008, I started the election season as a critic of Hillary Clinton, a fan of Barack Obama, and a supporter of John Edwards. But by the end of Clinton's historic drive toward nomination, the gendered rhetoric used against her - as well as the way so many men in my own party diminished the value of electing a female president - had radicalized me. Rebecca Traister
Me Election Value Men Drive Party Own President Way Diminished Critic Obama John John Edwards My Own Had Supporter Toward Hillary Hillary Clinton Nomination Well Female Clinton Historic End Fan Rhetoric Against Barack Barack Obama Used Many Season Her Started
'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a low grade, for agreeability without ambition. Richard Corliss
Smile Style Ambition Critic Would Give Con Chef Without Grade Dish Low Much Film Served
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic. Richard Pryor
Met Kid Critic Never Said Were Up Anybody Wanna Who Grow Grow Up
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. Robert Baldwin Ross
Conversation Says Critic Worthy Never Knew Smallest Attention Name Any Paid Who Painter Even
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. Robert Morgan
Home Language Thought Books Later Critic Out More Pointed Never Had Until Am Much Use Describe Things
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. Robert Sheckley
Science Critic Never Science Fiction Been Fiction Whole
Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye, who approached literature with similar archetypal analysis. Roger Ebert
Fans Films Analysis Analyze Critic Detail Archetypal Similar Horror Reminded Particular Am Canadian Literary Expertise Literature Breed Who
I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs. Russell Peters
Harsh Critic
When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us. Ruth Reichl
Home You Important Breakfast Critic Restaurant Became Us Really Night
Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all. Saint Basil
Education Time School Will Nothing Spent Though Critic Tell About He Knows How How Much How Much Time His Up Any Where Literary Cannot Us Much Chooses Who Letters Set
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People Critic Would One Thing Tried Poets Could Failed Talents Another Been Reviewers Historians Turn Who Therefore Thing
I am my own biggest critic. Simon Mignolet
Own Critic My Own Am Biggest
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. Simone Weil
Respect Spring Every Other Valid Considers Critic Seems More Fact Layman Performing Performing Arts Himself Than Any Lack Arts Acting
Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes. Sirio Maccioni
Our Critic Promised Born Had Fresh Pasta Craig Tomatoes
I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined. Stephen Hunter
Remember First Unleashed Oklahoma Kids Clan Critic Jobs Fabulous Some Week Through Headaches Massacre Attractive Got Die Sitting After Cannot Downside Film Early Watching Imagined
Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers. Stephen Hunter
Time Sometimes Try First Half Difficult Carefully Mine Defining Critic TV TV Commercials Give Given Tendency Since Obvious Read Without Editors Issues Been Discuss Commercials Same Same Time Movie Anything Them Aware Away
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. Stephen Spender
Justice Criticism Tyrannical Critic Like Midwife Certain
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. Susan Sontag
Failure Entitled Judgment Radical Critic Indicate Entire Wrong Course Judgments Any Sensibility Certain
The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not. Sydney Greenstreet
God Best You Wonderful Mind Stage Critic Out More True Clearly His God Help Than Get Lens Help Showing Cooperation Actor
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