Critic Quotes - page 11

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. (Alex Kapranos)
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. View quote
Allison Williams
I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ideologue, I don't join a party. I follow along and take notes. Sometimes I throw in my two cents. View quote
Anne Roiphe
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally. View quote
Bonnie Jo Campbell
If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions. View quote
Ben Brantley
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic. View quote
David Josiah Brewer
It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic. View quote
Devon Aoki
James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys. View quote
Donald Sinden
If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart. View quote
Dree Hemingway
I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing. View quote
Dario Argento
I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me. (Emmy Rossum)
Everybody is their own critic. View quote
Gina Carano
No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well. View quote
Glenn Hoddle
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic. View quote
Gary Hamel
I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second. View quote
Gary Vaynerchuk
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done. View quote
George Edward Woodberry
It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is. View quote
Heather Matarazzo
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more. View quote
Jo Stafford
As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic. View quote
Joe Regalbuto
A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt. View quote
John Gordon Sinclair
I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself. (John Lahr)
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. View quote
John Mason Brown
I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick. View quote
Josh Peck
I'm my own most merciless critic onstage. View quote
Keith Jarrett
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. View quote
Jewel Staite