Donald Glover Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Donald Glover:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.
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I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.
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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.
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I try to be me to the utmost.
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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.
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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.
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Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
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Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you're on Twitter, what you're saying is, 'I'm important enough for you to care what I think.'
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When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.
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Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
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Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.
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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?
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