I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.
Ken Burns

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
Nile Rodgers

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
Jackie Collins

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
Clifford Geertz

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Clive Bell

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand

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

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
Jo Stafford

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.
Geraldo Rivera

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

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
Edward Albee

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

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.
Leonard Maltin

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.
Douglass North

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
Robert Morgan

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
Theodore Roosevelt

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
Marianne Moore

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.
Devon Aoki