Critics Quotes - Page 9

Sociological critics are waste makers.

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

And make each day a critic on the last.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

Plays can outlast even the opinions of the chief film critic of The New York Times and that reviews, although they feel devastating in the immediate moment, are not remotely as significant as the significance you endow them with on the day that they appear.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

It's not the critic that counts.

I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.

We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.

I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's your job.

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

No critic ever changed the world.

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

One can never expect critics to behave in any predictable way.

We're all so jaded. We've seen so many movies. We know what's going to happen in every single movie. I mean, there are some movies where I'm like why do I even need to keep watching? And so, if you can make a movie in which you're completely surprising the audience left and right, and left and right, then you've won. If a jaded film critic or reporter or an audience is like, "I didn't see that one coming," that to me is like a victory.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.