Jane Elliot Quotes

The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.

I've come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I'm about, and I like sharing with my fans.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans.'

I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

I've always been online and available to my fans.

Everybody wants to be a celebrity, which is why we have this phenomenon of social media, where nobody wants to be private. We all want to be seen.

I try to share a lot of my life on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, everything. I really like interacting with fans on Twitter and answering their questions and just getting to know them because it's cool for them to have people who are connecting with my music reach out and show interest.

I love livestreaming, I think it's awesome and my fans really like it.

My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.

Entertainment shows make a living on behind-the-scenes stuff that can now be doled out socially. When we see it, we're like, 'Uh oh.'

I'm not the rapper that's too cool to tweet and talk to fans.

Most of our fans don't get to interact with us or know our personalities except through social media.

Despite my high profile on social media, I'm a private person.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their real life on TV, yet they want people to watch them and be fans with them.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

DMX wasn't checking what his fans were saying to him on Twitter or Facebook. Jay-Z is on a boat in Saint-Tropez. I'm hands-on. Girls write to me like I'm their diary. That's a huge responsibility. I don't take it for granted.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.