Criticism quotes

“I hate you and everyone you represent. Entitled, selfish, spoiled children. Blissfully untrained, unversed and unprepared to even attempt real art. Handing each other awards for cartoons and pornography. Measuring your worth in weekends? Well this is the theater and you don't get to come in here and pretend you can write, direct and act in your...” (continue)(continue reading)

Lindsay Duncan - Tabitha

“- Penelope Lanier: You're pretty domesticated for a rock star.
- Marianne Lane: Have I done anything to upset you?”
Dakota Johnson - Penelope Lanier
Tilda Swinton - Marianne Lane

“If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.”
Adam Richman

“Intellectuals have no taste.”
Sir Michael Caine - Fred Ballinger

“You're a loud kisser, and it's gross and unappealing. You look like some old toothless woman suckin' the jelly out of a donut.”

Melissa McCarthy - Susan Cooper

“There's a long list of things I don't care for: doctors, sunburn, mosquitoes, people who outstay their welcome... I could go on forever. But there is one thing I cannot bear, and that's self-pity. It destroys everything around it. Now don't be that idiot. Don't let that happen.”
Maggie Smith - Muriel Donnelly

“- Paul De Smedt: You're obscene.
- Harry Hawkes: We're all obscene. Everyone's obscene. That's the whole fucking point.”
Matthias Schoenaerts - Paul De Smedt
Ralph Fiennes - Harry Hawkes

“- Danny Campbell: Hey, if you guys are going to have sex in the pool, can you at least do it over by the filters...
- Frank Gomes: Sinners!”
Graham Phillips - Danny Campbell
Zack Pearlman - Frank Gomes

“- Bianca Piper: If I wanted to go shopping, I could have done that with Jess and Casey. I need you to give me real talk.
- Wesley 'Wes' Rush: You've gotta a uniboob. Your posture sucks and your clothes fit weird 'cause you wear the wrong size bra.”
Mae Whitman - Bianca Piper
Robbie Amell - Wesley Rush

- Murry Wilson: Frankly, if you really want to know, I don't care for it. It's too wishy-washy. "If you leave me, why leave me? Life will go on. Why go on living?" It's not like a Beach Boys song. Your brothers are going to hate it.
- Brian: [devastated] It's a love song.
- Murry Wilson: It's a suicide note.

Bill Camp - Murry Wilson
Paul Dano - Young Brian

“Human beings really know how to be pathetic when they try to, huh?”
Jane Seymour Fonda - Brenda Morel

“- Alice Kingsleigh: Wait!
- Red Queen: Oh, Alice, you always were an irksome slurvish, interrupting things!”
Mia Wasikowska - Alice in Wondeland
Helena Bonham Carter - Iracebeth

“If the guy in the cell thing doesn’t see the gun, don’t point at it and go, ‘Gun.”

Kristen Stewart - Phoebe Larson

“There's a lazy Sunday softness to your generation. Makes me uncomfortable.”

Gerald McRaney - Owens

“- Bobby Fischer: If I criticize a priest, will I go to hell?
- Father Bill Lombardy: Depends on if you believe in hell.”
Tobey Maguire - Bobby Fisher
Peter Sarsgaard - Father Bill Lombardy

“You don't own the truth about how we get through this, Miss Brittain. Your opinion is just that, an opinion, and you'd do well to remember it.”
Miranda Richardson - Miss Lorimer

“- Colin: I am a big fan of your work.
- Nate: I wish I could say the same.”
Colin Mochrie - Colin Frost
Portia Doubleday - Nate

“You're anybody's friend for a price, but nobody's when it counts.”

Josh Gad - Doug Harris

“- Ernie: You were never able to take criticism either.
- Jeannie: I think it depends on how it's given.
- Ernie: There's no easy way to give it. It's like medicine. You just take it if you really wanna get better.”
Brian Dennehy - Ernie
Helen Hunt - Jeannie

“The fans are like women. When you're hitting, they love you. When you're not, they'd just as soon spit on you as look at you.”

Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn

“- Lainey: First of all, you are not the Mark Zuckerberg of vaginas.
- Jake: I don't know who that is.”
Alison Brie - Lainey
Jason Sudeikis - Jake

“If you want to question my morals... do it later.”
Matthew Fox - Brooder

“I told Watson if I ever write a story it will be to correct the million misconceptions created by his imagination.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.”
Melanie Lynskey

“We've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.”
David Arquette