And make each day a critic on the last.
Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.
I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.
The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.
As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.
If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.
Time is the only critic.
A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.
I wanna grow up and be a critic.
The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.