Criticism quotes

How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are... (continue)(continue reading)
Adrien Brody - Henry Barthes

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
Katharine Hepburn

“- Wednesday Addams: Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character and the Aristotelian unities.
- Gary: Young lady, I am getting just a tad tired of your attitude problem.”

Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams
Peter MacNicol - Gary Granger

“First you lose your girl. Now you're gonna lose your head. You're running out of shit to lose.”

Bruce Willis - Bombay Brian

“- Bruce Banner: Tony, this might not be the time.
- Tony Stark: Really? That's it? You just rollover, show your belly, every time somebody snarls?
- Bruce Banner: Only when I've created a murder bot.”
Mark Ruffalo - Bruce Banner
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“- Mark Baum's Mom: Then what's the problem, rabbi?
- Rabbi: It's the reason Mark is studying so hard. He's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God!
- Mark Baum's Mom: So has he found any?”

Carrie Lazar - Mark Baum's Mom
David Zalkind - Rabbi

“- Ben: Dad?
- Chet: Yes, Ben?
- Ben: Does this mean we won't be getting Christmas presents this year from Aunt Kate and Uncle Roman?
- Buck: Oh, blow it out of your ass, Ben!
- Connie: Okay, nobody is blowing anything out of their ass. What we are having is a little problem, and it doesn't mean your father and I don't love your Aunt Kate and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ian Giatti - Ben Ripley
John Candy - Chet Ripley
Stephanie Faracy - Connie Ripley

“You bitch! Why didn't you just tell me it was a Rum and Coke?!”

Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan

From a Marine in Da Nang: "Captain Hauk sucks the sweat off of a dead man's balls”. I have no idea what that means, sir, but it seems very negative to me.

Forest Whitaker - Edward Garlick

“You got yourself a distraction that needs dealing with.”

Chris Mulkey - Frank

“We are having problems relaunching cinema as a popular art.”
Sergio Castellitto

“I do not approve of Set's rule. But I doubt yours would be much better.”

Geoffrey Rush - Ra

“You say that emotions are overrated. But that's bullshit. Emotions are all we've got.”
Harvey Keitel - Mick Boyle

“Ever since I’ve known you, you talk like a radicle, but you live like a rich guy. I don’t think you’re willing to lose all of this just to do the right thing.”

Louis C.K. - Arlen Hird

“Most important thing, never criticize, always encourage. You just want them to be passionate. That’s what I always tell my son. Find something you care about, and care deeply. That and the Golden Rule: treat others as you like to be treated.”
Aaron Eckhart - Benjamin Asher

“- Governor: Must you continue to dishonor the laws of the commonwealth and the church with your prideful conceit?
- William: If my conscience sees it fit.
- Governor: Then shall you be banished out of this plantations liberties!
- William: I would be glad of it.
- Governor: Then take your leave, and trouble us no further.”
Julian Richings - Governor
Ralph Ineson - William

“On Hollywood's theory that the audience knows best, the schoolboy's 'lousy' is the last word in dramatic criticism.”
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke

“You gotta get your head outta the clouds.”

Jon Heder - Roy Disney

“- Verna Griffin: Spinning records ain't paying the bills around here.
- Dr. Dre: What are you talking about? I get paid.”
Lisa Renee Pitts - Verna Griffin
Corey Hawkins - Dr. Dre

“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”
Basil Rathbone

“They were, as John always described them, penny dreadfuls with an elevated prose style.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.”
River Phoenix

“I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it.”
Johnny Depp

“- Sigmund Freud: Of course there’s the added difficulty, more ammunition for our enemies, that all others here in Vienna in our psychoanalytical circle are Jews.
- Carl Jung: I don’t see what difference that makes.
- Sigmund Freud: And if I may say so that’s an exquisite repressant remark.”
Viggo Mortensen - Sigmund Freud
Michael Fassbender - Carl Jung

“Every day they are told they are worthless, beyond hope.”

Marisa Tomei - Gwen Kolinsky