15 Movie Quotes about Criticism (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: July 17, 2025

Memorable quotes about criticism, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 He's... gone. Why, he must have heard the terribibble things you were saying, and got his itty-bitty bug feelings hurt.

Jim Cummings as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 I must say, you've become a better painter, my friend. -Maybe you've become a better critic.

Charles Boyer as Michel Marnet in Love Affair (1939)

3 But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.

Peter O’Toole as Anton Ego in Ratatouille

4 I welcome constructive criticism like that.

Daws Butler as Yogi Bear in Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (1964)

5 You have not only ceased to go forward, you have gone backward. You have not only stopped progressing, you have stopped thinking.

Quote from The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

6 Well, that's no good. That's not even conversation.

Cary Grant as C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

7 Say, those guys look pretty good. -Are you kidding? They're doing every cliché in the book.

Quote from Three Amigos

8 That's pretty sloppy, I must say. You call THAT lettering? That's one step above graffiti.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

9 You'd think at a fancy restaurant like this, at these prices, you would be able to keep the snails off the food! There're so many snails in there, you can't even see the food!

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

10 Try not to be so negative all the time. Why don't you offer some constructive criticism?

Dan Aykroyd as Elwood Blue in The Blues Brothers (1980)