Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.
Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.
Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.
critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
A critic is a man who expects miracles.
I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
One of the things I always underscore when I teach criticism is that young critics, or would be critics, frequently have this illusion that if they write about music they're somehow part of music, or if they write about movies they're part of movies, or of they write about theater they're part of theater, or write about literature. Writing is a part of literature, we belong the species of literature. If you add all the music reviews together that have ever been written, they don't create two notes of music.
It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest.
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.
When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
The critics have been writing me off for 20 years. That's nothing new. As far as I know I still have plenty of fans and sell lots of records. Do I care what critics say about me? No, and I don't read reviews.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.