Tana Mongeau Quotes

I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation - or whatever - that didn't really exist. So I didn't even know that that was a thing.

I think Jake Paul doesn't know who I am.

I think my issues with the Internet surround people who become 'overnight celebrities.' It's like, really? You put something on YouTube, and they Auto-Tuned it, and now you're a star, and you have a TV show, and you have a record deal.

In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away.

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

If you become a viral star, that is terrific!

I think YouTube used to have a negative connotation, like it was the place where the rejects went and made careers, but I'm proud to be YouTuber. I wanted to be in that first generation of YouTube stars who transitioned into the 'real world.' It was a really good way to build my business.

There's all these summer blockbusters out there, but nobody's talking about them... they're talking about 'Sharknado.' It's amazing!

Bieber is the first mega YouTube star, born inexplicably out of a novel and disruptive medium. It has, of course, always been so for pop culture: feverish bubbles, silly novelty acts and disconcerting new forces impose themselves on a reluctant and condescending media.

Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.

PewDiePie's a smart guy.

I always had a big fan base on the Internet, but it wasn't as a rapper. It was just as, 'Nahmir.'

There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of the absurd. And the more absurd it is, the bigger she got.

I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life.

Guys like LeBron, Chris Paul, Kobe... They all speak to me. It's just insane that all these top tier guys who have been in the All-Star game for so many years actually know who I am. I mean not in a million years did I think that Kobe would speak to me.

You know you've made it when you're a GIF.

Venezuela has changed forever, there is no turning back.

Once you go Vatican, you never go back again.

No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'

That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.

I just want to use all of myself, for the rest of my life, in every facet of my life, as long as I live.