Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Donald Glover
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Donald Glover.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.
The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.
I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.
Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?
Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.
If you're on Twitter, what you're saying is, 'I'm important enough for you to care what I think.'
I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.
We put stereotypes on ourselves. Everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just be who they are.
When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.
But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.
I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.
I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.
A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.
I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.
I try to be me to the utmost.
Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
I'm very confident in my point of view. 'Cause I think that that's all you can really have. I'm never really going to know what anybody else is going through, so it's just kind of your job to be expressive with your point of view.
I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.
The worst is feeling worthless.
It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before
When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.
When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized.
You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.
Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.
Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.
Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!
May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.
I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.
We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.
The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.
One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."
Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.
People are sometimes like: "Oh man, you're so talented and you do a bunch of stuff." I'm not! I swear to god, I'm not. I just like learning stuff, I like doing stuff. And I feel like everybody can definitely do it.
If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.
I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.
We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.
I hope a kid listens to my stuff, I hope there's a change made and at least somebody walks away with: "I'm doing this because I like it." People are going to hate it and that's okay, but I have to do it because my happiness is important too, it's worth it.
Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I'm scared that it won't last.
We put stereotypes on ourselves - like, everybody does that. But I think it's just a little harder for black kids to just like, you know, be who they are.
Girls are supposed to dance. That's why god gave them parts that jiggle.
I feel like guys don't think it's cool to use emojis. I'm like, that's so whack. Emojis help so much. They really do give context to something.
I don't talk soft, that's that other guy.
You're always allowed to be better.
I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.
I am what I am, everything I wanna be
Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.
I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them.
If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.
Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.
Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.
Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.
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