Words matter. These are the best Critics Quotes from famous people such as Roy Jones Jr., Marouane Fellaini, Ronald D. Moore, Ranbir Kapoor, Charles Murray, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If I spent my career responding to critics, I’d never be where I’m at right now.
Critics help you progress: you end up working more; you want to show them they are wrong.
‘Battletar’ took a while to kinda permeate out into pop culture generally. It hit first with the science-fiction fan community, then the critics, and then it kind of went to the general population.
Movies are a commercial medium. We don’t make movies to impress our friends and critics. It’s an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
My family was pretty much the way a family was supposed to be, a Norman Rockwell kind of family, I’m afraid. I say ‘I’m afraid’ because it will just confirm my critics’ view that my views about family are unrealistic.
There isn’t a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do.
I know all the critics.
I’m told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
The ’80s made up for all the abuse I took during the ’70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I’m not one of those people who says ‘I never read anything.’ I generally read all of it.
I’ve always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.
Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.
TV critics came after me for overhyping LeBron. A lot of people don’t know this, but I didn’t want to do the game. I told ESPN, ‘We’re making this kid into something special.’ I always follow orders, whatever my people want me to do.
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That’s like reviewing chapters in a novel.
Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.
I feel I’m often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it’s frightening to them.
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
You’ve got to listen to yourself, do what you think is best. Because if you listen to the critics, you might be going in all different directions.
Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don’t exist to demonstrate value.
More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
I am not bothered what critics say till people trust me. I am honest with my work.
I don’t disagree with the critics often, and I’m not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.
President Obama is asking critics of the Iran nuclear deal what the alternative is other than war as if it’s rhetorical question, but there is an answer: a better deal.
I don’t care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
I criticize those critics. The reason being that they’re doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.
In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I’m trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It’s a struggle; it’s a process that gets us this.
I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.
But you know, really, if you think about it Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
‘Horrible Bosses’ is just blatant, outright fun. I’ve read some of what the critics have said, and it’s incredible how mean critics can be about comedies… It’s so ridiculous.
Name me a person in public life who doesn’t have critics. Especially women in public life.
It’s just my natural way – to be funny. I don’t know why that is. But as I’ve said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ while not nearly the masterpiece proclaimed by many critics, is certainly a fascinating cross-species: a big-budget summer action fantasy with a sylvan, indie-film vibe, and a war movie that dares ask its audience to root for the peacemakers.
Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.
Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There’s plenty of room. The KP train is fun.
Success is always the best answer to critics.
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, ‘Oh, that’s a bad drawing!’ Well, I didn’t say it was so wonderful.
I don’t really think about the critics or the commercial success.
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.
There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that’s what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.
Some day I’ll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
We don’t make movies for critics. I’ve done four movies; there’s millions upon millions upon millions of people who’ve paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
Don’t let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.
I’ve always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.
Of all the criticisms levelled at Stephen Harper by his critics, the most puzzling, at least to anyone who has covered Washington, is that he behaves more like a president than a prime minister.
My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics.
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don’t have the discipline to write what we would term as critique – it’s really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That’s my view.
Everybody hates critics.
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
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 was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 ‘Black Male’ show at the Whitney, and I’ve never seen such vicious press. Twenty plus years later, critics who hated that Biennial have come to Jesus and decided it was a really important, seminal show that they misunderstood.
