Critics Quotes - Page 8

I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics.

I definitely think I put more pressure on myself. I can be hard on myself and super-critical and very rarely satisfied or happy. I am my biggest critic.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

Everybody's an art critic.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I’ve been thrashed by the critics. I love having critics for breakfast. I’ve been having them for 30 years in Mexico - just eating them like chicken and then throwing the bones away. They have not survived, I have!