Melissa Rosenberg Quotes

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

You can have 10 nice comments today, and it's that one nasty comment that you're gonna hang on to.

I get too upset by online criticism.

Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what people think of us, and it sucks, because you try not to take it personally, and people are monsters and idiots.

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative things.

Quite honestly, I'm the kind of person to get my feelings hurt over something somebody said on Twitter.

I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.

I don't read the comments people write about me - it's not worth it.

I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who's made one negative comment about me, I've probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.

It's very advantageous to be sensitive with your work - and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on - it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel - which makes it hard for young performers coming on.

I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

I'm young, and I'm a girl, so, when I post something, I want to see what people are saying or what they think of my photos. I've found it better if you don't read anything and you just always stay off that track.

I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.

As a 15, 16-year-old girl, someone messaging you on Facebook and telling you you're fat is devastating. It's still devastating when someone says something horrible about me, but I love myself so much more as a person.