Donald Glover Quotes

I try to stay incognito as much as I can. I don't go places that people would expect to see me because I'm trying to lay low.

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it.

I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.

What ever you do-Don't get caught.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

The first time I smoked weed was with Demi [Lovato] and Miley [Cyrus]. I must have been 17 or 18. They kept saying, ‘Try it! Try it!’ so I gave it a shot, and it was all right. I don’t even smoke weed that often anymore.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

You're safe only when you can't see anybody.