Famous quotes by Critics

"Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back, it hurts forever"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments), the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case, disarmament is impossible"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"We don't pretend to disagree"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"But you know, really, if you think about it, Roger and I and all critics really have one absolute essential part of our credentials, and that is that you believe that that is actually what we think"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important, quite apart from security"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention"

Brendan Gill, Critic

"If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown"

Chris Morris, Critic

"When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase"

Chris Morris, Critic

"Follow your passion"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure""

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story"

Gene Siskel, Critic

"No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them"

Chris Morris, Critic

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