Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
Mary Ritter Beard

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
Herbie Mann

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
Sam Rayburn

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
Charles Kuralt

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
Michael Bay

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
Ismail Merchant

Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.
Mandy Patinkin

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
Jane Mayer

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
Billy Wilder

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.
Joel Siegel

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
John C. Ransom

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Bobby Knight

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
John Irving

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.
Riccardo Muti

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
W. Somerset Maugham

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
Douglas Sirk