Shane Dawson

“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 t...”

“I can honestly say that I am open to love in any way. I guess that makes me bisexual.”

“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, loo...”

“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 th...”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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...”

“'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy.”

“Online, I'm this loud, outrageous, confident guy who acts like nothing bothers him, and he has the whole world at his fingertips. In reality, I'm a shy, quiet guy who would rather spend his...”

“Howard Stern is one of my idols.”

“I love interviewing people and getting them to talk about things they've never talk about.”

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

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

“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.”

“I would tell high school Shane to just start writing down everything that was happening. It was so hard to think back to all those terrible moments. They all started clustering together into...”

“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 th...”

“I have kind of a thick skin.”

“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, ther...”