Donald Glover
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.Collection: Movies
I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.Collection: Funny
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Cool
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.
When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.
I try to be me to the utmost.
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.
Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.
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.
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.
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?
Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.
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.
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.
If you're on Twitter, what you're saying is, 'I'm important enough for you to care what I think.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Real
If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.Collection: Nervous
I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.Collection: Refuse
Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.Collection: 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.Collection: Men
I am what I am, everything I wanna beCollection: I Am What I Am
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."Collection: Dad
Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.Collection: Mad
May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Suicide
When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.Collection: Superhero
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Baby
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.Collection: Teacher
Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'Collection: Rap
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.Collection: Hate
Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I'm scared that it won't last.Collection: Shine Bright
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.Collection: Basketball
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!Collection: New York
You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Sex
My swag is always capital and live in north Virginia.Collection: Virginia
I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.Collection: Rap
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.Collection: Thinking