No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?
No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.
I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
Me being nice or positive is not what people want to hear, which sucks.
Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours
Recently I made the mistake of opening a bundle of reviews that someone had sent me of a production from years and years ago, and someone had written a really lovely review except that it made a remark about the way I spoke: 'A lot of people find her voice terribly irritating.' Do they? I had no idea.
Whenever anybody says what you do isn't good, it's always unflattering and makes me feel uncomfortable. But when the person who's in charge of the United States of America says, 'Not good,' I'm like, 'Oh.' It's a little unflattering.
All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.