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Donald Glover Quotes

Total quotes: 43
“That’s what rap is, making the best out of a bad situation, brother.”
— Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles, Atlanta, Season 1: The Streisand Effect
Tagged: Rap, bad situation, Brother, Liberation
“Not all great things come from great pain. Sometimes it’s love. Not everything’s a sacrifice.”
— Darius, Atlanta, Robbin' Season: Teddy Perkins
Tagged: Great Things, Great Pain, Love, Sacrifice
“I just think we need a chance as humans to fail in order to discover what actually works, you know? People don’t think there’s a process to being happy.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Season 1: Go for Broke
Tagged: Chance, humans, Fail, Discover, Works, Happy
“I don’t need a birthday. ’Cause I buy myself all the presents I need....And because of my drinking, they’re often a surprise.”
— Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock, Season 3: Goodbye, My Friend
Tagged: birthday, Birthday Presents, Drinking
“I would say nice to meet you, but I don’t believe in time as a concept, so I’ll just say we always met.”
— Darius, Atlanta, Robbin' Season: Alligator Man
Tagged: Nice, Time, Concept, met
“I don't understand why dudes think loving a chick is wack. Like who do you expect to hold you down forever? Your homeboys? Lmao.”
— Donald Glover
Tagged: Love, Dude Love, Homeboys and Homegirls, Quote of the Moment
“You want to manage a rapper but you can’t do business high?”
— Darius, Atlanta, Season 1: The Big Bang
Tagged: manage, Rapper, Business, high
“Sexuality is a spectrum. You can really do whatever you want.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Season 1: Streets on Lock
Tagged: sexuality, spectrum, Choice, Flexibility
“I just keep losing. I mean some people just supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on Earth who supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners? Like, really.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Season 1: The Big Bang
Tagged: Losing, People, Balance, Universe, Earth, winners
“Poor people don’t have time for investments because poor people are too busy trying not to be poor.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Season 1: Go for Broke
Tagged: Poor People, investments, Busy
“I don’t know, man, I like Flo Rida. I mean, moms need to enjoy rap, too.”
— Darius, Atlanta, Season 1: The Big Bang
Tagged: Mom, Rap, Flo Rida
“Earn trying like the rest of us. But when he wants to do something, he does it. On his terms.”
— Raleigh Marks, Atlanta, Season 1: The Big Bang
Tagged: Trying, Something, Terms
“You’re my new night job and I’m gonna love you like my boss is watching.”
— Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock, Season 2: Episode 210
Tagged: Night Job, Love, boss, New
“I’m in charge! Attention, everyone! All menstruating women go home immediately.”
— Kenneth Parcell, 30 Rock, Season 3: The Funcooker
Tagged: I'm in Charge, Menses, period, menstruation
“Rafiki: Who are you?

Simba: I'm nobody.

Rafiki: Everybody is somebody. So I ask again, who are you?”
— Simba (voice), The Lion King
Tagged: nobody, Everybody, Somebody
“My father once told me: protect everything the light touches, if I don't fight for it who will?”
— Simba (voice), The Lion King
Tagged: father, Protect, Light, Fight
“I am not asking you this as the boss you love to undermine, but as the friend whose birthday you love to forget...”
— Liz Lemon, 30 Rock, Season 3: The Funcooker
Tagged: boss, Friend, birthday, Undermine
“Becca: Excuse me.

Jack: Oh God, please don’t be a daughter I didn’t know about.”
— Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock, Season 3: Goodbye, My Friend
Tagged: Daughter, Wedlock
“People ain’t just nice, Earn. When was the last time you were nice to a girl you weren’t trying to smash?”
— Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles, Atlanta, Season 1: The Big Bang
Tagged: People, Nice, Girl, Reality
“When you’re drunk, the one thing you want to do is sit in a chair for two hours.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Robbin' Season: Money Bag Shawty
Tagged: Drunk, Chair, sit down
“AIDS was invented to keep Wilt Chamberlain from beating Steve McQueen’s sex record.”
— Darius, Atlanta, Season 1: The Streisand Effect
Tagged: AIDS, Wilt Chamberlain, Steve McQueen
“Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”
— Donald Glover, Donald Glover Can’t Save You
Tagged: Authenticity
“Part of the reason I do what I do is because I'm the only one who can do it.”
— Donald Glover, Donald Glover Is Ten Steps Ahead of Us
Tagged: Career
“If you go in the ocean, you have to respect the ocean. You know that you can drown.”
— Donald Glover, Donald Glover Is Ten Steps Ahead of Us
Tagged: Career, Respect
“Let’s not think back on mistakes we made in the past, let’s just focus on what lies in front of us.”
— Donald Glover, What Donald Glover Said to Lena Dunham After His Girls Arc
Tagged: Girls, TV
“Chinese people are short ’cause of Genghis Khan.”
— Darius, Atlanta, Season 1: The Streisand Effect
Tagged: Chinese, People, short, Genghis Khan
“Every now and again, people just want to have a good time.”
— Darius, Atlanta, Robbin' Season: Teddy Perkins
Tagged: Good Time, People, Every now and again
“She's gonna kills us all with her cuteness.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Season 1: The Big Bang
Tagged: Cute, Kill, sweet
“Don't mess with the money.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Season 1: The Big Bang
Tagged: Mess, Money, Advice
“I got a two regret life limit pact.”
— Darius, Atlanta, Robbin' Season: Teddy Perkins
Tagged: two, Regret, Life, limit pack
“Woah, you just wrinkled my brain.”
— Troy Barnes, Community, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: woah, wrinkled, Brain, Mind Blown
“Alcohol makes people sad. It's the Lifetime movie of beverages.”
— Troy Barnes, Community, Season 2: Mixology Certification
Tagged: Alcohol, Drinking
“Nothing was about to happen until something happened.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Robbin' Season: North of the Border
Tagged: Nothing, happen, something happened
“It’s hard for me to care about this when nobody cares about me as a black human man, you feel me? Like, Caitlyn Jenner is just doing what rich white men been doing since the dawn of time, which is whatever the hell he want. So why should I care? What make him so special?”
— Alfred 'Paper Boi' Miles, Atlanta, Season 1: B.A.N.
Tagged: hard, Nobody Cares, Special, rich, Race
“You supposed to be so smart, you can’t remember to flush?”
— Raleigh Marks, Atlanta, Season 1: The Big Bang
Tagged: Smart, flush, remember
“Jack: Let me hear you say the seven most important words in the American judicial system.

Frank: My client has no memory of that.
    
Jack: I also would have accepted, ‘you can’t prove that’s the governor’s semen.’”
— Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock, Season 3: Goodbye, My Friend
Tagged: semen, Sex Scandals, American Judicial System
“Storytelling is just simplifying what’s happening to you. Life is just a story. Stuff that happens to you, you just put into story mode. I just take what’s there and put it into story mode on a smaller level so that you can be like, ‘Oh my God, that’s life! I totally relate to that.’”
— Donald Glover, Donald Glover Is Ten Steps Ahead of Us
Tagged: Storytelling, Life, Simplification
“Van does everything. She works, she raises our child, she’s smarter than me, better than me. I mean, that’s why I married her. She honestly doesn’t get the credit she deserves. I mean, ever. But that doesn’t deter her from being what she is, which is a mother, a provider, and a partner. Gun to my head, I don’t think I could even look at another woman.”
— Earnest 'Earn' Marks , Atlanta, Season 1: Juneteeth
Tagged: Child, Smarts, Marriage Advice, Credit Card, mother, provider, Partner
“I need your creative input. I’ve spent the better part of last three years developing a portable, miniature microwave oven. Most of that time has been spent focused on coming up with a hip name for the product, that will appeal to the marketing holy trinity: college students, morbidly obese, and homosexuals. Unfortunately, legal just informed me that the name we settled on for our bite-size microwave, The BiteNuker, is highly offensive to those who speak French or Dutch. A Franco-Dutchman would pronounce it ‘Bedneuker.’”
— Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock, Season 3: The Funcooker
Tagged: Creative Input, Marketing, Homosexuals, Obese, Microwave, Dutch, French Kissing
“Simba: [attacks Scar after Scar admitted in to killing Mufasa] My father, your own brother —how could you!

Scar: [to the hyenas and lionesses] First he kills Mufasa, and now he wants to kill me!

Simba: YOU killed him! Tell them the truth!

Scar: Don't believe his lies!

Sarabi: Scar? You told us you didn't get to the gorge in time.

Scar: That's true!

Sarabi: [outraged] Then how did you see the look in Mufasa's eyes?

[Scar growls]

Simba: MURDERER!

Scar: KILL THEM ALL!”
— Simba (voice), The Lion King
Tagged: Murder, Lies, kill them all
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