Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.
Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
I'm definitely my worst critic. I guess that's good because it keeps you on your toes.
Be your own biggest critic. Don't let someone else beat you to constructive criticism.
As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.
The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
I'm not a critic, I'm a journalist. I'm doing my job holding the government to account.
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Fortunately, I got critic and audience acceptance much earlier than industry acceptance.
I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore.
If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
I'm hardest on myself. I'm my biggest critic. I ended up hurting myself a lot by doing that.
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
I consider myself very lucky to have a sister who is also my best friend, critic and guardian.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
I think every athlete is their own biggest critic. That's just who we are. We're so competitive.
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.
I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.
When I am on E! for the 'Fashion Police,' I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
Don't let that 'mom' word fool y'all... Her being my biggest critic was the best thing for me, actually.
To my younger self, I would say not to be so hard on yourself. I think that you are your biggest critic.
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.
Don't be your own worst critic. If you're not confident in what you're saying, no one else will be either.
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is.
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.