A Quote by David Cross

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

David Cross

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David Cross
American - Actor
Born: April 4, 1964

I get very excited by these hoity-toity directors with their bells and whistles, but I find simple storytelling done really well just as exciting.

Kathy Burke

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Charlaine Harris

France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity.

April Bloomfield

I'm no Robert Christgau or Chuck Klosterman, but I would say that Landlady is like if Harry Nilsson was produced by Brian Eno. Or, if David Byrne fronted Wilco. Those are my two hoity-toity musical epigrams.

Scott Rogowsky

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

Desmond Tutu

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

Irvin Mayfield

It took a while for me to be able to sit in a room of studios and financiers and say, "I'm not some hoity-toity actress looking for a vanity deal - I really know how to make a film!" In order to do that, you've got to break your f-cking back.

Charlize Theron

I don't want to sound hoity-toity, but people told me I should watch 'Cheers' because it's very funny. So I watched it, and I just went, 'This is the great show of the universe?' To me, acting is making characters believable, not just doing jokes.

Teri Garr

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

Charlie Brooker

I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.

John Lahr

Ralph Ellison's essays were models for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating aesthetic boundaries, he made criticism high-stakes work, especially for a black critic.

Margo Jefferson

I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

Wendell Berry

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

Michael Caine

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

Raymond Chandler

I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

Adam McKay

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

Vladimir Nabokov

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