Critics Quotes
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Critic Quotes
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
Stephen Jay Gould
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OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were...
Ambrose Bierce
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Critics complained it wasn`t opera, it wasn`t a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.
Rouben Mamoulian
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Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
Abhishek Bachchan
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During an interview with Roger Ebert regarding his film Munich (2005) and the response from Jewish critics that claim it depicts Israeli and Palestinian causes as morally equivalent: Frankly, I think that`s a stupid charge. The people who attack the movie...
Steven Spielberg
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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
Peter Greenaway
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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
Peter Greenaway
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I think Orlando Bloom is cute. I met him at an awards show. I was actually nominated and I won that one. When I went up on stage, they didn`t have a step for me to step on at the Critics` Choice Awards so he had to hold me up. He held me for a LONG, LONG ...
Dakota Fanning
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They`re very harsh critics and they`ve often said to me: "That was shit, you were crap`, but this is the first time [after he saw her as "Amy Foster" on Swept from the Sea (1997)] my father said to me: `I think one day you`ll be a good actress"-- on her p...
Rachel Weisz
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[On movie critics] "There are a few who are not nice and they say things that are harsh...but they always help me to become a better actor."
Sarah Polley
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What critics call dirty in our movies, they call lusty in foreign films.
Billy Wilder
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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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[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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[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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[about Han Solo, speaking in 1979] He`s not a cardboard character to me at all. He`s as real as anything else. I never thought of the character as having only two dimensions until the critics said so. And they`re wrong. The third dimension is me.
Harrison Ford
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I`m not interested in pleasing the critics. I`ll take my chances pleasing the audiences.
Walt Disney
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I`ve often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you`d suppose.
Cary Grant
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I want to make good movies. Of course, I want to make entertaining movies for the younger audience, and this is a lot of times not working with film critics who are more into drama or art-house movies. But on the other hand, I always try to make solid mov...
Uwe Boll
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[On his filmmaking style] American critics always complain about the blandness of mainstream movies, but when you do something more ambiguous and ironic, they are pissed off too. I like putting certain aspects of American society under the magnifying glas...
Paul Verhoeven
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[on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)] You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of relig...
Oliver Reed
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[On her Rachel, Rachel (1968) director and husband Paul Newman being snubbed in the Best Director category by the Academy Awards in 1969] "How do you figure it? He even won the New York Film Critics award that year for it, but didn`t get in as one of the ...
Joanne Woodward
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I`m a multi-faceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. I have an IQ of 190 -- that`s supposed to be a genius. People don`t like that. My answer to all my critics is simple: I like me. I like what I`ve become. I`m proud of what I`ve achieve...
Jerry Lewis
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[Talking to critics about her reviews for "The Mask of Virtue" (1935), her second play on the London stage] "It`s much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."
Vivien Leigh
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To compare me with Goya is a nonsense. Critics speak of Goya because they don`t know anything about Quevedo, Theresa of Avila, the picaresque literature, Galdòs, [Ramón del Valle-Inclán] and others . . . Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from e...
Luis Bunuel
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Is it just me, or is a porn award show just not the right place to be discussing your thoughts on the war? - Response to a question at the 2003 X-Rated Critics Organization Awards (quoted in "High Society" October 2003)
Jenna Jameson
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Some day I`ll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.
Francois Truffaut
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[On The Boys from Brazil (1978)] "I felt, Laurence Olivier felt, friends of mine like Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon felt, that I was good in this part. Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image....
Gregory Peck
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Critics can`t even make music by rubbing their back legs together.
Mel Brooks
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I hate how people have been attacking Daniel Craig. It`s despicable and it disgusts me. I have filmed with him in Prague and the Bahamas and he is a fine actor. He brings something new and edgy to the role. His critics will be proved wrong.
Judi Dench
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