Quotes About Feedback

My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations.

I'm like an actor who obnoxiously says he doesn't watch his own TV show. It is extremely rare for me to read my own comics and have asked publishers to please stop sending them to me.

You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

I read pretty much every tweet that's sent to me and often reply.

I am sure if you went back to the days of 'My Fair Lady,' they would have had one public dress rehearsal, and that is it. And in a way, I would like to go back to that. Now you have people tweeting and blogging immediately, so you may as well regard your first preview as your opening night because you are going to get reviews.

I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.'

I'll read tweets that people will tweet at me from time to time, but I try not to read too much about it, because you just never know what's going to end up influencing you.

I always separate myself from reviews, but tweets and Instagram comments, they go directly to my phone. It's hard to keep up.

Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails.

You have to have confidence in where you're going. Don't live and die by the fans' tweets.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

I really do care what people think, and I revolved my whole career and all the twenty five years with Dream Theater... I ran that band and made decisions based on caring what the fans thought and wanted.

You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.

When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.'

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Some people we define as trolls are just critics. Sometimes they have a point. And I hear them. But for the ones who comment "I want to kill you in your sleep," I respond to them too.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

I tweet because it allows me to say anything I want and sometimes people respond.