No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

- Chris Rock

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

- Donna Brazile

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

- Dave Matthews

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

- D. H. Lawrence

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

- Channing Pollock

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

- Clive Bell

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

- Claire Tomalin

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

Now everyone is a critic.

- Christina Aguilera

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

- Chris Rock

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

- Alice Walker

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.

- Ben Brantley

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

- Brian Lumley

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

- Bernard Williams

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

- Alex Kapranos

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

- Allison Williams

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

- Adam Jones

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

- Ashwin Sanghi

I feel very lucky I don't have to be a critic.

- Annette Bening

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

- A. E. Housman