Stewart Lee Quotes

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.'

Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

I'm very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

Being that my name is attached to Disney, especially when it comes to social media, I always have to be careful with what I post.

I don't read anything. I don't read the press. I've always valued my supporters and my haters are supporters in disguise. That's just the way it is. I run a couple of social media accounts and you can't help but look at comments every now and then.

Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

If you think I'm just another pretty face, read my Facebook updates, read my articles, read the interviews I've done and judge for yourself.

It doesn't matter what we post about ourselves on social networks or how many times we play live TV, even. It's all about those people, those fans who are telling other people about us.

All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.

People really don't watch TV no more - it's all about social media. I think it's a great platform for showing off your brand, who you are, interacting with fans, interacting with people in general.

If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things. To some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter. Consider blaming yourself.

I think a lot of people haven't even seen my videos but just hearing my name are like "Oh, that's that dumb Internet thing." And I'm definitely trying to shake that a little bit.

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.

Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life.

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.

Oh, tweeting prolifically is the most easy thing in the world. Tweeting prolifically is like somebody saying, 'Boy, you're a really good walker around,' you know. It's not really hard.

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there.

I have a private Instagram and an official one, so I'm not opposed to social media.

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.