I got invited to the White House, and I tried to sleep there overnight without permission. The Secret Service came to my house, and I had to talk to them. They legally couldn't do anything because I didn't do anything wrong, but they yelled at me like a principal.
Jake Paul
Nobody's life is perfect, and each individual will have their own struggles and stipulations.
I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in.
I know it's a cliche. But, like, literally, I want to create an empire of dozens of talent under me to take my power and multiply it so that I become bigger than myself.
The Jake Paulers are the strongest army out there. Dab.
You can become whoever you want to be. You can do what you want to do.
Off camera, I'm, like, chill and very laid-back. I don't know if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.
You're only one video away from going viral and changing your life.
I had to overcome bullies and other people who didn't like me and tormented me. I overcame those things with positive affirmations and setting goals. When I would set goals, I wouldn't let anything get in the way of me breaking them. As I found success, a lot of those things subsided and became less important.
I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.
I'd like to be a superhero or a supervillain in a huge action movie. I want to play, like, the Joker or something like that.
I made a Vine with 50 Cent where I smashed two quarters together, and he popped up.
Drake has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and same with Lil Wayne.
I am so lucky to have really good parents. They didn't hesitate to let us go to L.A. They didn't hesitate, because they knew that they raised their kids the right way: to be able to live by themselves and not get caught up by L.A.
I have made multiple videos telling fans not to come to our house. I feel like a zoo animal.
I think a lot of social media creators have always been, like, content and haven't pushed the limits because no one else had pushed the limits before. I say to myself, 'How can I create my own TV show online every day and actually make it a real production and put effort into it?'
I know how to sell a brand and create excitement around something, and so when you combine those two together -entertaining and marketing - it's like things start to go crazy.
What I love about YouTube is that you don't need brands to pay you, because you get paid off the views. When I put effort into YouTube, I directly see money back.
There are lots of ways to monetize. But if you have millions of fans, and you can convert even five percent of them to pay for something of yours, you are in the seven-figure range.
The early days, when Vine was so special and innovative - I would wake up and immediately want to make videos. I loved it.
My personal goal is to be a billionaire.
Moving forward, the most successful people in the entertainment industry will be 50 percent social and 50 percent traditional, so working with Disney and being super traditional, it brought a whole different audience to me.
We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos.
I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.
People are lazy, and nobody wants to turn their phone to the side. I know I have my phone locked, so if I have to turn something to the side, I have to turn that lock off.
I got into a competition with my brother over who could make better Vine videos.
I started on Vine because it was such an engaging platform that was the most popular at the time. It came natural to me, and I understood the type of content I needed to make on it so that people could enjoy it. I knew it was a great start, but I had to spread my wings and create something that would last forever - a career.
I think it's about being really smart about hitting the right consumer product spaces at the right time.
I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could.
Social media is kind of the same across the board, so you just have to know how to engage your audience, and you will be popular on any platform that comes up.
My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.
Disney was, like, such an amazing experience always for me, such a huge part of my life.
I like to push my body to the limits.
I was, like, 17 years old, making more money than my parents.
I overcame a lot of things, growing up, as everyone does.
Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team.
I love Bane. I love the Joker. I love Batman.
I knew I always wanted to be 50 percent social media and 50 percent traditional media. Because I believe the stars of the future will need both.
I love acting. I'm definitely working on all things acting.
Even Disney - off the record, but on the record - knows that I have the power. They love me because of that. I don't act like it. I'm not walking around all cocky, but the tables have turned.
I'm not here to hurt anyone or harm anyone.
Every day, I'm trying to push the boundaries creatively, and sometimes it does push the boundary too far, and that's what I had to learn.
People naturally want to retweet and engage on super funny videos and memes.
I've seen so many people on Instagram lose all of their followers because they were doing constant collaborations. They were only getting paid $100 dollars per post. That doesn't make any sense.
Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.
YouTube is the vlogs and my life, then Instagram is comedy skits and pictures that I take. Twitter's text, and Instagram Stories is even more behind-the-scenes vlog stuff. I'm always posting.
The Internet won't skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.
Social media stars are only relevant because they make content, so they can never stop doing that.
I moved to L.A. at 17, and for the fist time, I had to realize that if I run out of money, I'm moving back to Ohio - and I didn't want to do that at all.
I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything.
