Critic Quotes
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, ...
Theodore Roosevelt
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Oscar Wilde
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
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She`s not Madame X; she`s brand X; she`s not an actress, she`s a commodity. -- Pauline Kael, movie critic
Lana Turner
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If you care about yourself and what you do you get nervous about it. You just don`t take the money and go home. (on being a tough critic of her own acting)
Rachel Ticotin
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[on film critics] "There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world o...
George Lucas
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Don`t ask me my opinions on art, because I don`t have any. Aesthetic concerns have played a relatively minor role in my life, and I have to smile when a critic talks, for example, of my "palette". I find it impossible to spend hours in galleries analyzing...
Luis Bunuel
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[on being accused of copying Jack Nicholson] If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I`m doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Christian Slater
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I write essays in the form of novels, or novels in the form of essays. I`m still as much of a critic as I ever was during the time of `Cahiers du Cinema.` The only difference is that instead of writing criticism, I now film it.
Jean-Luc Godard
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Daddy has never seen anything I`ve done, but he is the best critic I have. He has taught me how to tear down a character. `Slug your guts out` is his philosophy of acting. Never mind the talent, just work hard.
Geraldine Chaplin
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One looks at films differently when one is a director or a critic. For example, though I have always loved Citizen Kane (1941), I loved it in different ways at different stages of my career. When I saw it as a critic, I particularly admired the way the st...
Francois Truffaut
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One looks at films differently when one is a director or a critic. For example, though I have always loved Citizen Kane (1941), I loved it in different ways at different stages of my career. When I saw it as a critic, I particularly admired the way the st...
Francois Truffaut
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[on Peter Bogdanovich] You`re talking about a man who did something quite extraordinary. He was a film critic. He then went and made "The Last Picture Show," which won a few nominations for the Academy Award. He was very resented for that. Not openly, but...
Burt Reynolds
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I think I am my worst critic. I feel like I can always improve.
Kristin Herrera
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I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.
Robert Mitchum
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You have to remain flexible, and you must be your own critic at all times.
Hans Zimmer
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I won`t quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
Jack Lemmon
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You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Andrew Booth
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Writing is hard for me, ... every critic and reader in the world is looking over my shoulder and shaking their heads about how bad that last sentence turned out.
Tess Gerritsen
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Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I`m thinking, He`s not talking about the movie.
Harold Ramis
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When somebody asks me what I do, I don`t think I`d say critic. I say writer.
Allynne Jones
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When I first saw myself in American Pie, I cringed. I hate the way I look here, the way I sound there, but that`s because I`m my own worst critic.
Shannon Elizabeth
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Well, I`m not a critic, I`m just a worker. So, I`m always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
Mandy Patinkin
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he`s acting and an actor when he`s criticizing.
Elia Kazan
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The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
George Bancroft
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The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.
Ajay Mangal
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The drama critic for The Montreal Gazette gave me a good review in a high-school production of Pride and Prejudice. It went to my head.
Christopher Plummer
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The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Andrew Klenert
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The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
John Scott
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