My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

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

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

I am glad that critics and filmmakers liked my work, and I have been warmly welcomed in Bollywood.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

I'm just blessed. To be recognized by critics - that's been fun, that's been nice them showing love.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance.

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

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

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

Critics said I am nasal, but my fans made me hit. So I will not stop singing if critics don't like me.

It is certainly very thrilling to be given so much love and appreciation from the audience and critics.

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.'

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.

Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Real Madrid is a big club, and like at any other big club, too, there are always critics after defeats.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

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

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

Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

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

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

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