I’ve got the public. I don’t care about the critics. I did at one time. I don’t any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don’t need a critic to tell you, ‘This should be done another way.’
I’m an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
Now everyone is a critic.
Performers put their heart and soul into their art, and can be subject to highly personal attacks and criticism. The tone and language of reviews, or commentary on social media, can be bruising and severe. Everyone is a critic. All of this adds to the stress and anxiety suffered by people in the performing arts.
I wouldn’t call myself a ‘literary critic,’ just a book reviewer.
People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.
I think any critic that takes a swipe at ‘Full House’ is like taking the family dog. The dog brings you joy and happiness and makes you forget your problems, and that’s all ‘Full House’ does. Literally, taking a potshot at that show is like taking the family dog.
You can get sucked into the idea that, ‘Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.’ Or ‘I’ll write like this because it will impress that critic.’
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Time is the only critic without ambition.
The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.
The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains – but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction – that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife – a tyrannical midwife.
Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
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.
One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of ‘Paper,’ gave me ‘Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,’ the master invitation list from Rock Hudson’s memorial service. It’s so great. Everyone’s in it, with personal addresses all bound into a book. Someone else once gave me Ike Turner’s will. I get great stuff.
I’m my own harshest critic but I’m also master of my own destiny.
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.
‘Chef’ is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a low grade, for agreeability without ambition.
One of the biggest things I learned was not to tell myself ‘no’ before someone else. As someone who’s creative, I know the inner critic can be really loud. Early on in my career, I would just listen to it and tell myself ‘no.’
If talking about arts means being pretentious, a bit like being a wine critic, then I don’t feel comfy with that. You can get a lot from paintings without getting mystical about brush strokes.
I’m not a food critic, and I’m not really an authority to write anything on food.
When somebody asks me what I do, I don’t think I’d say critic. I say writer.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
I’m my hardest critic, I expect the best of myself, I’m a perfectionist.
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Everyone has to be their own critic.
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
I put so much pressure on myself. I’m my toughest critic. I always push myself to go harder than I did last time.
Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren’t even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.
I’m my own biggest critic, so no matter what was being said in the media or being said by fans, I feel the worst when I disappoint myself.
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
I’ve always been a really hard critic of everything I do.
‘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.
I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.
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.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Of course, I’m always my biggest critic. So I’ll never be completely satisfied with my performance, win or lose, even if I come out with a knockout or submission; I’m still going to wish that I did some things differently.
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he’s acting and an actor when he’s criticizing.
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.
I am my own biggest critic.
I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won’t lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn’t good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, ‘What could I do? I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t act or anything like that. OK, I can write.’
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I’m my own harshest critic – as we all are, really.
My grandfather is my biggest fashion critic. He takes a keen interest in the millennial fashion, most of which he disapproves of, but he is a very practical fashion critic.
Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. It’s everyone who’s ever doubted Donald, who’s ever disagreed, whoever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe.
I’m probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it’s that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don’t know why that is.
Nobody’s a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.
I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I’m my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it’s done, but I’m not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.
I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the ‘U.K. Sunday Times,’ who championed me as Shakespeare’s Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
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.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
If Bill O’Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that’s probably – that probably means you’re doing a good job.
I was my worst critic ever.
It’s funny to be a critic.
I’m hardest on myself. I’m my biggest critic. I ended up hurting myself a lot by doing that.
I resist lists. It must be all those ‘Most Important’ and ‘Best of the Year’ ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.
It must be every critic’s dream when you’re at something utterly intolerable to actually get up and intervene and make it stop.
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
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.
To my younger self, I would say not to be so hard on yourself. I think that you are your biggest critic.
Don’t be your own worst critic. If you’re not confident in what you’re saying, no one else will be either.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic’s construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there’s nothing wrong with horror; there’s nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
