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Critic Quotes

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown

Man Opinion Action Trials Critic

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Play Write Critic Give Inch He

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Art Trust Values My Own Own Critic

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

Dead Mighty Delight Critic

Everyone has to be their own critic.

Everyone Own Critic

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

People You Need Tell Critic

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

Relationship Statue Critic Pigeon

I've realized my best and worst critic is my director.

Nushrat Bharucha

Best Worst Director Critic Realized

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

Me Think Say Critic Somebody Writer

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

Critic Should Describe Prescribe

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Channing Pollock

Man Critic Who Running Teaches

I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

Me Better Idiot Know More Critic

Ralph Ellison's essays were models for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating aesthetic boundaries, he made criticism high-stakes work, especially for a black critic.

Margo Jefferson

Life Work Me Black Criticism Critic

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Critic Exist Only Number Certain

My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.

Family Me View Point Of View Critic

I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.

Truck Quit Run Over Producer Critic

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

Think My Own Worst Band Own Critic

I'm usually a fairly harsh critic. It depends. I tend to really not watch my work, because I just feel uncomfortable, and I can be highly critical.

Work Feel Uncomfortable I Can Critic

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.

Book Name Pig Critic Butcher Asking

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Art Painting Weather Critic Flat

I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Heart Great Wise Me Know Critic

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

Know Hopeless Write Up Critic Who

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

Dennis Haysbert

Teacher Actor Critic Either Were

I never actually went anywhere when I was a journalist. I was a critic, and I just sort of got stuff in the mail and chatted about it.

Colson Whitehead

Never Mail Critic Got Just Stuff

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