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I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.
I put so much pressure on myself. I'm my toughest critic. I always push myself to go harder than I did last time.
I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
The biggest critic I have in my life is my dad, so everything else is just a breeze; it doesn't really matter to me.
I had one critic who wrote: 'Finty Williams is like her mother in looks if not in talent.' It'll be on my gravestone.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
Look, I'm my own worst critic. I've made mistakes in areas that I need to improve - most notably, turning the ball over.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.
My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
It must be every critic's dream when you're at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
I'm an equal-opportunity critic when it comes to left-wing celebrities sounding off on topics of which they know precious little.
I'm my hardest critic because I know what I can do and I strive to be as perfect as I can be even though I know it's not possible.
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
My dad's best friend was a food writer and critic, so I was very lucky to eat in beautiful Michelin-starred restaurants growing up.
Our pasta primavera was born when I promised fresh pasta with tomatoes and basil to critic Craig Claiborne, but we had no tomatoes.
'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.
All of those Shield guys, who came in protected, have done nothing but deliver, in my opinion, and I am a harsh critic of everyone.
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off.