Top 70 Donald Glover Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If it makes you nervous- you’re doing it right.”

— Donald Glover

2. “The worst is feeling worthless.”

— Donald Glover

3. “Don’t be mad cuz I’m doing me better than you doing you.”

— Donald Glover

4. “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

5. “I am what I am, everything I wanna be.”

— Donald Glover

6. “May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.”

— Donald Glover

7. “Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.”

— Donald Glover

8. “Girls are supposed to dance. That’s why God gave them parts that jiggle.”

— Donald Glover

9. “I try to be me to the utmost.”

— Donald Glover

10. “It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before.”

— Donald Glover

11. “When I wanna be a superhero I just wake up.”

— Donald Glover

12. “When anybody pays you to be creative, you’re very lucky.”

— Donald Glover

13. “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.”

— Donald Glover

14. “Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I’m scared that it won’t last.”

— Donald Glover

15. “I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger’s syndrome.”

— Donald Glover

16. “I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.”

— Donald Glover

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.”

— Donald Glover

21. “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

22. “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.”

— Donald Glover

23. “Yes I’m grown and sexy, and I’m worth the wait. Girls act like I’m the only dude on earth to date.”

— Donald Glover

24. “Girls who used to tell me I ain’t cool enough now text me pics saying you can tear this up!”

— Donald Glover

25. “I don’t talk soft, that’s that other dude.”

— Donald Glover

26. “Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.”

— Donald Glover

27. “Stranger: Resistance is a symptom of the way things are Not the way things necessarily should be. Actual victory belongs to things that simply do not see failure. Let the path push you like a broken branch in a river’s current.”

— Donald Glover

28. “Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.”

— Donald Glover

29. “I come around when you least expect me! I’m sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!”

— Donald Glover

30. “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

31. “You started rapping when you wasn’t good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.”

— Donald Glover

32. “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

33. “My swag is always capital and live in north Virginia.”

— Donald Glover

34. “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

35. “Never kiss in public, but at home I am affectionate.”

— Donald Glover

36. “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

37. “I’m trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you’ll probably know it’s you after the first sentence.”

— Donald Glover

38. “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

39. “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.”

— Donald Glover

40. “Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone’s blueprint. But you have to be on your own.”

— Donald Glover

41. “They say my public persona don’t have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give ’em something real.”

— Donald Glover

42. “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.”

— Donald Glover

43. “What’s the point of rap if you can’t be yourself, huh?”

— Donald Glover

44. “Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they’re looking up to me.”

— Donald Glover

45. “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.”

— Donald Glover

46. “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.”

— Donald Glover

47. “I try and go to as many places as possible. It’s really cool that I even get to see different places.”

— Donald Glover

48. “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.”

— Donald Glover

49. “A lot of my sketches came from thoughts, and I always just wanted to act them out.”

— Donald Glover

50. “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