Donald Glover Quotes

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.

With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

I don't know if I'm 'normal.'

I always felt like a fraud.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

She tried to be someone people liked. She tried to be someone people disliked. But all I became was someone who didn't succeed with anything I tried to be.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

I consider myself to be an entertainer, given that I'm most known as MGK "the rapper" I don't have a problem with the label, I just want the people to know that I am much more than that.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.