Criticize Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (C) Quotes

People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don`t even know you. All of a sudden, you`re, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I`m going through. Interview with Blender Magazine, September 2003.

- R. Kelly

"(When asked about her career in later years,) Virginia would always change the subject as quickly as possible without being rude. She never watched her old movies or replied to requests for interviews. Although she was never one to criticize, I think our boys got the impression that their mother didn`t think very much of the motion picture industry." -- Lionel Krisel, Weidler`s husband

- Virginia Weidler

"I would speak to Vanessa`s father (Sir Michael Redgrave), or Laurence Olivier or John Gielgud, and they told me that, at a certain point, I had to make a choice. I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career. People will criticize you, they said, but if you keep changing, you`ll win in the end." (Toronto Globe and Mail, 12 November 1982)

- Franco Nero

I was affected by it - of course I was. What bothered me was that I was being criticized before I had done the work. I wasn`t going to get into an argument with these people, so my only response was, `See the movie and then you have the right to criticize, but first see what I am trying to do.` It strengthened my resolve. I was hurt by it, but it just made me try harder. The pressure was there. I know a lot of people feel very passionate about the Bond movies, but so do I, so I just got on with it. What I tried to achieve was just making a movie people will want to go and see, and I think we have made a great movie. One of the things I was criticized for was that I looked like a bad guy, but I was happy with that because I think true good guys have to step into the dark side to do their job. I wanted people to question Bond`s morals and his judgment.

- Daniel Craig

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don`t criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

- Loretta Young

I`ve learned to not take media criticism personally, ... Seven or eight years ago, I would have said `I hate the media; there are people in it who are always bashing me.` Now I understand that, when someone writes something negative about me, it`s part of the game. Media criticism will destroy you if you take it personally, so now I play with it. I stay away from politics. Some people criticize me for that, but it`s a choice I`ve made. I have my views, but politics can be very sensitive. I`ve struggled so hard to get fans and people behind me for what I want to accomplish that it would be a mistake to support one party publicly and have the other party against me.

- Oscar De La Hoya

(commenting in 2004 on Britain`s proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill) To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

- Rowan Atkinson

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say `cause if you`re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

- Ani Difranco

(on film critics) "There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. They don`t criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they`re selling."

- George Lucas

I think it`s really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It`s funny to me that we`re expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I`m famous? People criticize Michael Moore, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon for standing up for what they believe in, but that`s what they do. They never pretended to be anyone else.

- Lisa Edelstein

My attitude is, if someone`s going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

- Simon Cowell

You know there`s nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

- James Carville

Why do they say I hate my country? And what does that even mean? Am I supposed to hate my town, am I supposed to hate all English people, or my government? And if I do hate my government, does that mean I hate my country? It`s a democratic duty to criticize the government.

- Ken Loach

People have a right to criticize.

- Luciano Pavarotti

People are always going to criticize your game. Initially, the number is going to help you get on the field a little bit more. People are going to notice you - it brings a lot of exposure. He`ll have a target on his chest, and it`s going to make him a better player. But lacrosse is lacrosse. It doesn`t matter what number you are wearing on your chest.

- Michael Powell

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

- Pierre Salinger

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

- Rory Bremner

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

- Winston Churchill

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

- Donatella Versace

These days we can be sued for disparaging an industry. It`s like it`s a felony to say something bad. I think they should make it a felony to criticize a film product. Particularly my film product. It`s anti-American. I`d like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can`t say something nice you shouldn`t say anything at all.

- Richard Linklater

I can`t really criticize because I really don`t know the fine line of detail that goes with officiating,

- Chris Hovan

You can`t really praise somebody`s work and then criticize the process.

- Lucinda Williams

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

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

- Chuck Jones

It is infinitely easier to criticize than to create.

- John Mccormick

Don`t criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.

- Laura Hall

It`s very easy to come out and criticize hard choices if you`re not making any of your own.

- Matthew Miller

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they`re not all mean-spirited.

- Lee Scott

You`re confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they`re talking about product. That`s not art, that`s the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I`m not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

- Jeff Melvoin

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

- Dale Carnegie

I can`t understand why anybody would criticize anything that ends up being a novel. I`m working on a novel now, but I never entirely gave up on verse.

- Denis Johnson

I have seen her criticize and confront politicians and public leaders because they`ve ignored the needs of the community.

- Sharon Lee

Never criticize a man until you`ve walked a mile in his moccasins.

- Adam Witter

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina`s problems haven`t been solved, and Congress` response is to criticize Federal judges.

- Aiko Uemura

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

- Alan Feldman

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

- Alan Shaw

How many McDonald`s gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?

- Alfred Hamilton Barr

I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it`s their money. They said it`s not their money; it`s my mother`s money. Well that`s what`s wrong with the system.

- Allan Lichtman

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

- Alvina Tan

And sometimes I`m criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

- Amber Harris

It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

- Amir Salem

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

- Andrea Bagley

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

- Andrea Peiro

I`m getting paid to play the game that I love, ... If anyone wants to criticize that, they can come say it to my face. I didn`t get drafted because of what happened at Duke, and I wiped that off my chest and I moved on. People can say what they want to say, but I`m in the NBA right now.

- Ann Johnson

No matter what the reaction, to me, it`s been a success, ... I`m sure some people will criticize. There is such a wide variety of people who come through here.

- Ann Rath

(Veterans) do have more leeway to criticize Bush. It gives Republicans something to think about.

- Barbara Willer

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don`t criticize What you can`t understand

- Bob Dylan

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

- Abraham Lincoln

One mustn`t criticize other people on grounds where he can`t stand perpendicular himself

- Mark Twain

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

- Benjamin Franklin