Donald Glover Quotes

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

I needed to be more self-determining, and the most self-determining thing you can do in comedy is stand-up.

I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else's words. I could just stand there with a microphone, and nobody would interrupt me. It's the most narcissistic thing you could probably do.