I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.
From Donald Glover
I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.
I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me.
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.
But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.
I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.
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