Critic Quotes - page 12

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. (Lynn Lavner)
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write. View quote
Mary Garden
I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.' View quote
Mary J. Blige
Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing. View quote
Mats Sundin
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. View quote
Matthew Tobin Anderson
I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994. View quote
Michael Mayer
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. View quote
Romola Garai
I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs. View quote
Russell Peters
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. View quote
Sydney Greenstreet
One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between television and cinema, because the production values are so high and the storytelling is so compelling. View quote
Terence Winter
I've stopped going to see art films because every critic gives them four stars and say things like 'masterpiece,' 'spellbinding' and 'mesmerizing.' I mean, they're doing that with my film, but I don't want to use those blurbs. Critical reviews aren't worth too much anymore because just about every film can get one or two of them. (Terry Zwigoff)
I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way. View quote
Theophilus London
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be! View quote
William Morris Hunt
If getting used to music is the essential condition for understanding, it is hard to see just what purpose is served by writing about it. A few experiences of listening to a symphony or nocturne are worth more than any essay or analysis. The work of art itself teaches us how to understand it, and makes the critic not merely parasitical but strictly superfluous. View quote
Charles Rosen
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. View quote
David Sedaris
Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay. View quote
Josh Gad
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. View quote
John Crowe Ransom
Known as supreme in the Philippine literary world, the keenest critic and writer we ever had. View quote
Epifanio de los Santos
I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog's-ear place of these pages the warning, "Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.”. View quote
George Saintsbury
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. View quote
Frederic Raphael
As a secular person, and as a woman, I've always been appalled by the Taliban regime and would dearly like to see them toppled. I was a public critic of the regime long before the war started. (Susan Sontag)
But just because I am a critic of Israeli policy - and in particular the occupation, simply because it is untenable, it creates a border that cannot be defended - that does not mean I believe the U.S. has brought this terrorism on itself because it supports Israel. I believe bin Laden and his supporters are using this as a pretext. If we were to change our support for Israel overnight, we would not stop these attacks. I don't think this is what it's really about. View quote
Susan Sontag
I realize that every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water. View quote
Thornton Wilder
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. View quote
Zubin Mehta