Shane Dawson Quotes

I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.

Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'

Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

The liberal entertainment industry is a fickle world. So it's about living in the moment, and it's about being clear with it and understanding that this is another opportunity to step up the staircase a little bit and create some newer opportunities and get involved in some other projects, as well as possibly creating your own.

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

I have 50 rejected TV show ideas. I think when I hit 100, then I'll feel like I really started to make it.

I'm gonna do a little radio, a little TV, and just create content in general and hopefully make the world a happier place.

People are going to keep making stuff. Things are going to be spin-offs.

I've always been obsessed with marketing and media. I always wanted to be a business brand owner. I wanted to create things.