Donald Glover Quotes

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

There is nothing namable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.

I'm thankful for performing as long as I am allowed.

I think everyone that creates has to cope with the fact that people actually don't give you money because they like you, but because they get something out of it.

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

I sort of got lucky in that I was able to carve a niche for myself.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.

I just don't like to do photography for money.

Shoot, I ain't working for free. You can never have enough money.

I'm blessed. I'm going to get to do something I love to do and get paid a lot of money for it.

I think you have to be so indulgent in creativity in that, if you're happy, it's successful. If it's then financially successful, which is different parameters, then you're also happy.

The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!

It is a business, and at the end of the day, I'm very lucky and very thankful and blessed to have the ability to play this game and be compensated as much as I do anyway.