Top 44 Shane Dawson Quotes

It’s fun to be around people who don’t think I’m creepy for making videos in my bedroom on the Internet.

Anybody could be a sociopath. Anybody.

I started pitching shows and sold a show, ‘Losin It,’ about my Jenny Craig days. It never was made. I think it didn’t work, partially because I didn’t write it.

There’s nothing creepier to me than a student who hangs out with the teachers.

It sounds super cliche, but staying true to yourself and what you are works.

I know what I do for a living is ridiculous.

On YouTube, you know, if you say something, you know, that triggers somebody, it becomes a whole controversy, a whole thing – and all the comments and everybody’s upset, whereas a book, there’s no comment section. There’s no – there’s nowhere for the audience to, you know, get mad at you for saying something.

Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.

No matter what somebody thinks about your videos or whatever, everyone can agree how much work it is.

The problems you have as a kid will seem ridiculous when you get older because bigger and worse problems will come along.

I want to know the psychology of a YouTuber… do you think, to be a YouTuber, you have to have something off?

YouTube opened up a lot of doors.

I’ve been wanting to do some type of video about the idea that YouTubers have to have some kind of personality disorder, something right, to do what we do. Putting ourselves on camera all the time, being so open on camera all the time, having conventions with our name in it. There has to be something.

I was not really worried about what people thought of me or how offensive my jokes were. I was just kind of saying whatever I wanted, and that gave me the reputation of being this crazy, loose cannon, you know, psycho guy. It still kind haunts me to this day. Like, ‘Oh, Shane Dawson – that guy’s nuts.’

Christina Grimie was one of my favorite people, not only because she was caring, she was humble, and she always felt like people mattered… but because the first thing she said when she met me was, ‘Oh em gee – your videos are really gross, but for some reason, I love you.’

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.

I’m not really gay, and I can’t sit here and say that I am, because that’s not real and that’s not genuine. But I also can’t sit here and say that I’m straight. This is something I’ve come to the conclusion through therapy and from being honest with myself. I am bisexual.

There are a lot of coming out videos of people who are gay or lesbian, and they’re so confident. But it made me cry because I’m not that. I don’t know who I am 100 percent.

I lost a lot of weight, when I was 18, on Jenny Craig.

I have a P.O. Box that I get about 50 letters a day that my mom picks up, and a lot of weird gifts I like to show on my videos.

The one time I’d ever babysat, the kid ran into a glass door and got a concussion.

For me, it’s always fun to have people that do the same thing as you or and have the same work ethic as you. A lot of my friends have YouTube channels, and I use them in my videos, and I’m in their videos.

I kind of made the decision early on to be extremely open about everything and just pretend like all of these people watching were my close friends that I could tell stuff to and be honest with.

I think I’m used to competition. YouTube is a daily competition. I’m used to that, and I’m used to hate coming from everywhere on the Internet.

I’m just an innocent guy with a dirty mouth, I guess.

I love interviewing people and getting them to talk about things they’ve never talk about.

I love podcasts, so I thought I’d try one.

Everybody loves a Keurig.

I think competition turns people into what they normally wouldn’t be.

People who don’t know me are going to be surprised by how much I don’t take myself seriously.

Howard Stern is one of my idols.

YouTube has a stigma about only kids watching it. That’s true. It is mostly kids and teenagers who watch it. But I’ve never made videos for teenagers. They should not be watching my videos.

I started making videos when I was, like, seven or eight.

I have spoofed celebrities before, but it’s hard for me because I picture them watching it.

I don’t think I’ll be doing daily videos forever.

I’ve made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it’s too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.

Kids can be so mean.

I didn’t think I could pull off a novel.

The biggest thing I learned is directors don’t make a lot of money on a movie.

I have kind of a thick skin.

I’m proud that I don’t make crazy jokes anymore.

If you go through my Instagram feed, it’s like a flip book of me thinking I’m way more attractive than I am. It’s nauseating.

I’d wanted to be a director since I was five and had been making videos since I was a kid. Then YouTube came around during high school. I was making videos, and it was just a place to put them, like storage.

I’m not saying that I don’t like the stuff I put out into the world, because I genuinely enjoy my videos and think they are funny. What I’m saying is that I embrace the fact that I have a punchable face, and that if I could punch myself without feeling it, I would.