I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
Jon Bon Jovi

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
Irwin Shaw

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
Elizabeth George

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.
Norman Rockwell

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
Chuck Barris

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.
James Lipton

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
Virgil Thomson

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
Oksana Baiul

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
Jean-Michel Basquiat

I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
Jimmy Page

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
Piers Anthony

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.
Jean M. Auel

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.
Frank Richard Stockton

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
Kate Smith

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.
Artie Lange

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
John Grisham

I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
Vic Morrow

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.
George W. Bush