Shane Dawson Quotes

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I think the world needs to see more of my face.

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.

I like people wanting to know about me.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

People love to talk about themselves.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.

I mean if anyone's comfortable being famous, they're a psychopath.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

I'm not shy, exactly, but I am private. I don't like to talk about myself. I had to learn - I was interviewed for print, radio and even TV.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.