You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as everyone tells you when you lose.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

Pay no attention to what critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That is the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at only one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

Dear Mrs Jones: Thank you for your letter. I shall try to do better.