Top 30 Ryan Higa Quotes

When I make a video, I’m always thinking about the fans.

It’s the Internet. I’m sure many people know that it’s one of the toughest places to be if you’re sensitive.

YouTube keeps changing, and you have to change with it.

Thriving in the digital space is about constant commitment and engagement rather than being hit-driven like traditional media.

For the very first video I ever made, I was told to film our family reunion, or something like that, and I had so much fun with it that I just kept doing it since then – probably since seventh grade.

I get a lot of offers, but I’m pretty picky about what I promote.

Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do.

I do a little bit of acting, but I wouldn’t call myself an actor.

Lemonade is not just made of lemons. It’s barely lemons! It’s mostly water and sugar! Life didn’t give us that.

There are product placements. I worked with a lot of companies like Universal and Wonderful Pistachios.

I definitely want to branch into television and mainstream.

I guess the dream would be to do movies, and keep people updated with my videos.

I was supposed to go into nuclear medicine and become a doctor.

I’ll continue to make videos as long as I have the time and people continue to watch my videos, but eventually I’d like to mainstream into TV or movies.

One of my first videos on VHS, unknowingly at the time, was a stop-motion of a cup moving across a countertop on its own. I was pretending that I was performing some kind of magic trick. It was my way of doing effects without understanding how to edit.

I never had a single big break – because few do online.

The closest thing I have to a manager is probably my mum.

Technically, I direct, I’m a writer, and I do all these things, but I never went to school for them. It’s just something you pick up; it’s like its own art, basically.

To me, ‘success’ is happiness and my top tip for happiness would be to understand and learn to use perspective.

I try to use my influence and empower my community to always question the status quo – whether it relates to broader policy issues or YouTube gossip.

I try to keep the topics trendy. If it’s a rant, it’s something I feel strongly about, and people will watch it because they either agree or disagree.

I read the viewer comments and that helps me decide what my next video will be.

In the beginning, every little thing used to bother me. Now, even the worst sounding things sound like a joke because I’ve seen everything.

I actually started making videos in 2004, before YouTube, using a VHS camcorder, but had to take the tape with a cassette to friends’ homes so that they could see it.

If you’re likable, people will like you.

I have comedic things in my stuff, but I don’t consider myself a comedian. I’m just a YouTuber, I guess just a personality.

The fans are the motivators that keep me creating my style of content.

I’ve always wanted to connect with my viewers but there’s only so much you can do through commenting and tweets.

I was doing nuclear med I didn’t like it. My first semester I switched to film major. YouTube helped make that decision for me.

In making YouTube videos, you can’t just be an actor, you have to also know the shots and how to write.