Quotes by Donald Glover - Page 2

You know who was on time tonight, which surprised me? Ghostface. Ghostface was early and making calls - what rapper does that?
Donald Glover / Actor
Doe
Hip Hop
Rapper
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Effort
Lucky
Thinking
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Looks
Moving
Scary
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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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Black
Harder
Little
Does
Just Be
Put
Stereotypes
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You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.
Donald Glover / Actor
Community
People
Video
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Losing
Minds
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Nice
People
Real
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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."
Donald Glover / Actor
Dad
Conversation
Want
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Men
Black
Growing
Masculinity
Strong
Struggle
Be Strong
Idea
Down
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Rapper, just puts so much connotation on who you are and what is exposed. Even if a lot of it is out-dated, people still bring a lot to it.
Donald Glover / Actor
Connotation
People
Rapper
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Life
Movie
Stories
Understanding
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Giving
Guy
Thinking
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I hope people come to the shows because they feel like there's something there that I can't necessarily articulate, but it's real and it's fun.
Donald Glover / Actor
Fun
People
Real
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I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.
Donald Glover / Actor
Falling In Love
Goal
Love You
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It makes me wonder what this rapping shits a hobby for, oh that's right, because I'm gifted in another field, and another field, and another field.
Donald Glover / Actor
Fields
Hobbies
Rap
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Dad
Dark
Favourite
Trouble
Places
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I don't even think I'm that good at rapping, but I think what makes a great rapper - what CAN make a great rapper - is someone who wants to be better.
Donald Glover / Actor
Rap
Rapper
Thinking
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Able
Impatient
Looks
Stars
Want
Biggest
Whatever
Overnight
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Kids
Black
Thinking
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Kids
Believe
People
Affects
Hold
Personally
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Long
Son
Thinking
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Censored
Really Cool
Stuff
Youtube
Sketch
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Jobs
Best Job
Writing
Day Job
Sketches
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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.
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Predict
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I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.
Donald Glover / Actor
People
Rapper
Thinking
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I lost my virginity junior year of college, I was 21... I was awkward, and I was raised Jehovah's Witness so I thought sex was bad, I thought I was going to go to hell, and get AIDS immediately.
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College
Sex
Years
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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?
Donald Glover / Actor
Black
Fighting
Negative
Something New
Thinking
Totally
Try
Seen
Fight
Hold
Suspect
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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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Banging
The End Of The Day
Wall
Writing
Writer
Asked
Better Your Me
End Of The Day Me Day
End Of The Day
Room
Strenuous
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I'm a big PAX person... just because it's accessible. I feel like between the weed and the wax it's kind of like BetaMax and VHS. You can carry it around, people don't really know what it is, no smell.
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People
Smell
Weed
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Men
Stuff I Like
Swear To God
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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.
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Expressive
Point Of View
Job
Your Never Know
Anybody
Anybody Else
Confident
Cause
Else
Just Kind
Point
View
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The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I got to perform it. It just kind of became therapy for me. I had just gotten through a break-up and I was talking about it a lot.
Donald Glover / Actor
Kind
Therapy
Writing
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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.
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Black
Nerd
Robots
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L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!
Donald Glover / Actor
New York
Home
Missing
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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.
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Kids
Hate
People
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Fruit
Six
Years Ago
Beginning
Planted
Stand Up
Trees
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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.
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Dumb
Pretending
Suicide
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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.
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Baby
Mistake
People
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There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.
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Basketball
People
Rap
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When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.
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Football
Friday
Stars
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I have to say it's better to be an actor, only because people worry about what time you go to sleep and what you dress like. As opposed to a writer, where it's like, "Oh I'm in my New York University sweatshirt and I'm not wearing pants." You're not worried about what you're eating or anything. It's all a part of your process.
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People
Sleep
Worry
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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.
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Brother
Stars
Wall
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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.
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Men
Pain
Religious
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I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.
Donald Glover / Actor
Kids
Moving
Rapper
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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.
Donald Glover / Actor
Kids
Teacher
Writing
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