When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

- Amaury Nolasco

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

- Channing Tatum

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

- Bennett Miller

In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.

- Bill Viola

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.

- Buzz Osborne

Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.

- Brian McKnight

Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

- Brendan Behan

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

- Billy Wilder

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

- Barack Obama

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

- Adam Sandler

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

- Alan Parker

I don't care about the critics.

- Andrew Lau

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

- Artie Lange

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.

- Alex Gibney

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

- Arthur Rimbaud

For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.

- Alex Berenson

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

- Abhishek Bachchan

Sociological critics are waste makers.

- Andy Warhol

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

- Alice Walker