Criticism quotes

“- La Rue: You're a troublemaker! These articles of yours, attacking our leading men of letters, the arts! Criticizing the civic authorities!
- Emile Zola: Perhaps you know of something better for me to criticize?”
Paul Irving - La Rue
Paul Muni - Emile Zola

“I don't take reviews very seriously, but in their totality I think they are representative of how the audience feels.”
David Zucker

“I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.”
Sam Raimi

“You're not dead yet: so stop living as if you are!”
Bette Midler - CC Bloom

“Mother never approved of Scraps jumping up like this. But then again, she never approved of anything.”

Johnny Depp - Victor Van Dort

“- Kevin O'Shea: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Are you nuts?
- Rudy Zolteck: It's still good!
- Kevin O'Shea: You'll never get anywhere treating your helmet like a lunchbox son. What is that?
- Butz: Cheetos.
- Kevin O'Shea: Crunchy or puffed?
- Butz: Puffed.
- Kevin O'Shea: Wimp [Butz confiscates the food and walks off]!
- Rudy Zolteck: My...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed O'Neill - Kevin O'Shea
Michael Zwiener - Rudy Zolteck
Joe Bays - Butz

“He should have made it bigger and more realistic, that puny thing's embarrassing!”

Phil Margera - himself

“There should be a prerequisite, a curriculum for being a parent before people attempt. Don’t try this at home!”
Adrien Brody - Henry Barthes

“- Carson Drew: Here's a check for the butcher. Tell him he's been cutting the meat so thin lately it only has one side.
- Effie Schneider: Yes sir, shall I tell him which side?”
John Litel - Carson Drew
Renie Riano - Effie Schneider

“- Roman: How about the gourmet here, you know what he wanted? Hotdogs! You know what they make those things out of, Chet? You know? Lips and assholes!
- Chet: Hahaha I guess I'm old-fashioned I like assholes.
- Roman: Ha and I like lips! kisses Connie's lips If I could market lips like those I would make another million.”
Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig
John Candy - Chet Ripley

“I'm not sure I wanna be hanging out with a guy who noticed a crease in my pants.”
Christopher Walken - Mike

“- Stu: You are a fucking moron!
- Alan: Your language is offensive.
- Stu: Fuck you!”
Ed Helms - Stu
Zach Galifianakis - Alan

“You don't crumple the paper up, ya gotta twist it, ya twist it.”

Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig

“- Jeff Blue: You know that looks really great on TV, but in real life you get better results if you just kind of hold it like this and...
- Muerte: Shut up! Shut up!!
- Jeff Blue: Do you always have this much problem with a little constructive criticism?”

Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue
Stanley Tucci - Muerte

“- Hillary: Oh, for God’s sake. Don’t you get it? We’ve grown apart. It happens to the best of friends, it’s happened to us. We might as well face it.
- CC: You’re ridiculous.
- Hillary: I’m ridiculous?
- CC: We haven’t grown apart. You’ve fallen apart.”
Barbara Hershey - Hillary Whitney Essex
Bette Midler - CC Bloom

“- Annette: Hello, Jack? I'm Annette.
- Jack Butler: Hi.
- Annette: You're doing it wrong.”
Miriam Flynn - Annette
Michael Keaton - Jack Butler

I watched four episodes of "Lassie" before I figured out why the little hairy kid never spoke. I mean, he rolled over, sure, he did that fine, but I don't think he deserved a series for that.
Robert Picardo - Wak

We got one letter from a man who thought that Hauk's comedy was "visionary and interesting”. The other eleven hundred calls say that the man can't do comedy to save his dick!… That's a direct quote, sir.
Forest Whitaker - Edward Garlick

“I have a small part. It's unsympathetic. The audience doesn't like me. I can't afford to be in love with you.”

John Cassavetes - Maurice Aarons

“Are you crazy? You don't feed a baby chili!”

Valri Bromfield - Doris

“Why don't you just tie a mattress to your back? You don't care where it is, do you?”

Michael Beck - Swan

“Even Bobby thinks we went out. Great, huh? Ha! All of you thought we were a couple. What a joke!... Ronald Miller paid me 1,000 bucks to pretend I liked him. What a deal, huh? $1,000 to go out with him for a month. This guy. Oh, God. He bought me. And he bought all of you. He was sick and tired of being a nobody. Yeah, and he said that all of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Amanda Peterson - Cindy Mancini

“All you ever cared about is nugs, chillin and grindge.”

Sean Astin - Dave

“- Colonel Meyers: That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise?
- Highway: It's a cluster fuck.
- Colonel Meyers: Say again?
- Highway: Marines are fighting men, sir. They shouldn't be sitting around on their sorry asses filling out request forms for equipment they should already have.”
Richard Venture - Colonel Meyers
Clint Eastwood - Highway

See. if I'm thirsty. I don't want a glass of water, I want you to sympathize. I want you to say, "Gloria, I too know what it feels like to be thirsty. I too have had a dry mouth." I want you to connect with me through sharing and understanding the concept of dry mouthedness.
Rosie Perez - Gloria Clemente