Critics Are Our Friends Quotes

#1. Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors - that stuff hurts.

Eve

#5. Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies.

Norman Vincent Peale

#7. What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book ...

Winifred Holtby

#8. Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

Russell Baker

#9. The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

Don Henley

#10. All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

Chuck Klosterman

#11. My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

Sasha Frere-Jones

#12. Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

James Payn

#13. I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

Joe Jamail

#14. Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics ... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

Philip Guston

#15. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

William Styron

#16. Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

Ranbir Kapoor