Critics Quotes

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.

In democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect,...

They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.

Critics have their uses. They can crystallize a moment and bring into sharp relief the mistakes that have been made and what must be done to correct them.

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All critics should be assassinated.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

Evaluations, in essence, are … ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate

Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.

I hsve been called a traitor many times in my career, and it is a badge that I wear with great honor.

I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.

The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.

Naysayers have been saying stuff my whole career.

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Critics build nothing.

Let the critics criticize and let the doers do.

People are going to take shots at you for everything you did bad, and they forget about all the good things you did. They do it to everyone. They're going to do it to me, they've done it to all of them. They did it to Tom Landry. Are you kidding me? Tom Landry? With the fedora? Come on. They did it to Tom Landry.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.