Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.
Not even the severest critics of Jeffrey Archer can deny his style.
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people’s art because they can’t do it themselves. It’s a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
The critics never see my role as it is – as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it’s just me again committing violence.
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
It’s nice when critics say ‘Emperor of the Air’ is an important book of stories.
That’s the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.
I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don’t affect your work.
Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.
I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.
In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can’t do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.
Our audiences were always the most bizarre mix. You’d have a thousand screaming girls in the front of the stage and then ten very serious rock critics in the back of the room going, ‘Uh-huh, I think we understand this.’
There are always going to be critics… and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it’s more important that you do what you think is right.
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud – it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
When I first started, there were, like… two or three critics that you thought, ‘Alright, I hope I get a good review from them.’ And now there’s millions of them.
Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I’ve ever worked with.
Once you get on to the racetrack on Sunday and you strap your helmet on and you come down especially toward the end of the race, it’s every man for himself. It’s me against the world. It’s me against everybody else. Sometimes you’re against your critics, as well, too.
Don’t pay any attention to the critics – don’t even ignore them.
Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word ‘sentimental’ from your minds.
My ‘Devdas’ was a tribute to all the mainstream masters, from Mehboob Khan, K. Asif, and V. Shantaram to Raj Kapoor. I am not saying critics shouldn’t have criticised my film. But they should have judged the film within the genre and format that I had chosen.
For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
I’m happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I’m not over.
It’s when people come at you on Twitter and say really crazy things. That’s the kind of stuff that I insulate myself from. All of that is not very interesting or helpful, but we have critics who sometimes really love us or sometimes don’t, and it’s really interesting for me to see what they don’t like about it.
Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.
I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.
When you’re doing a film, it’s your film and it’s, you know, your blood and – is in it along with everybody else’s, and it’s the greatest picture ever made when you’re shooting it. It’s only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
You can think what you like of Madonna – about her political choices and her PR – but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned – or the very brilliant – dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person’s work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
I don’t mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.
Let my critics direct a movie if they think it’s so easy!
No design, no matter how common or seemingly insignificant, is without its adamant critics as well as its ardent admirers.
I’ve never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I’d be packing a piece.
I don’t worry about what the critics say.
‘See Spot run!’ is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.
I don’t pay attention to critics.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
You can’t make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what’s honest for you.
We must defend democracy using its own mechanisms, through explaining and exemplifying its merits rather than through the heavy-handed and arbitrary silencing of its critics. This is how we will build a sustainable alternative to the contorted worldview of extremists.
I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That’s what I have control of. What I don’t have control is whether critics or the public like what I do.
The best critics of America are Americans.
It’s always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it always looks better five years later.
All my career, I’ve said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.
Critics who have said a safer shot here or there would undoubtedly have won me a few more tournaments are probably correct. Going for the green in two was who I was as a boy – and it’s who I remain as a man.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Art editors and critics – people like me – have become a courtier class.
Movies are hard work. The public doesn’t see that. The critics don’t see it. But they’re a lot of work. A lot of work.
Women are the harshest critics of other women.
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy’s eloquence and social observation in ‘Sights and Spectacles’; she thinks in print, but she doesn’t have a real feel for the stage.
You don’t want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven’t done what I do. Most book reviewers haven’t written 11 novels. Many of them haven’t written one.
I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within four weeks. I know what the critics love. We write and produce for people, not for critics.
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast – Mississippi, Alabama and so on.
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called ‘My Generation’. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
Ultimately, you’ve got to answer your critics on the track, and I am very much hoping 8.41m is acceptable for people.
Young people need models, not critics.
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
