Shane Dawson Quotes

You really have to think a lot before speaking, and the things that are written about you, sometimes you might not like it.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.

In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

So this is the little lady who made this big war.

When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move … When the leader talks, people listen. When the leader acts, people watch. So you have to be careful about everything you say and everything you do

You're going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it's still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.

You never know what's going on in someone else's life and that you can't always understand how what you say or what you do - no matter how big or small it may seem to you, it could be the end of the world for someone else.

If you're making entertainment on a grand scale, if you're reaching millions, there will be tens of thousands of people who absolutely hate us, and some percentage of those will take it upon themselves to let us known how they feel.

Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.

There is a sense of responsibility when you play a real-life character because there are people who will see your work, make comparisons, and judge you. They have all the rights to do that because they know the real person. They might have seen that person also.

I'm a normal person. I don't see where people come off saying I'm crazy.

I know everything I do is going to be magnified.

I have paid for things that I had done because I have been in the spotlight.

When you record something, you never know who's going to hear it.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.