Top 1010 Critic Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all.

My mother is my best friend and my biggest critic.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.

Humility is a very important trait in a critic.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

I am my own biggest critic. I never like what I do.

Sometimes you're your own worst critic.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

If I hadn't chosen acting, I would be a food critic.

The market is the only critic that matters.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

Be a harsh critic of your own wins.

True critic is someone who loves movies and understands it.

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

And make each day a critic on the last.

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Art critics are like every other critic.

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.

I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

No one ever erected a statue of a critic.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.