Shane Dawson Quotes

We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

I could Google image search 'the sky' and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can't Google, you know, 'What does my friend look like today?' For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

I was never my favourite subject.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

It's tough being me.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

I don't need to Google myself.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

I'm very vain about my performance. I want to give as honest a performance as I can. But I'm not so worried about being regarded as beautiful when I'm playing a character.

I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.

I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.