Critic Quotes - page 4

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist. (Adam Jones)
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! View quote
Brian Lumley
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews. View quote
Ben Brantley
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. View quote
Douglas Sirk
I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now. View quote
Geraldo Rivera
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative. View quote
Glen Hansard
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time. View quote
Helmut Jahn
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie. View quote
Harold Ramis
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend. View quote
James Payn
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. View quote
James Polshek
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. (John Scott)
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance. View quote
Ken Burns
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
It's funny to be a critic. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves. View quote
Michael Ian Black
If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that. View quote
Miranda Richardson
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. View quote
Nile Rodgers
Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty. View quote
Robert Mondavi
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. View quote
Robert Morgan
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. (Tyne Daly)
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about. View quote
Ted Allen
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. View quote
Theodore Bikel
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth. View quote
Wilhelm Steinitz
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. View quote
Kirk Douglas