Donald Glover Net Worth

Donald Glover's Quotes

• L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!
• [on his character Troy in "Community"] When you think of the former high school football star, you think 6-foot-2, white, meathead as the model for that kind of character. Since I'm not 6-foot-2 or white, I just thought about what I could bring to it. I thought about Smash Williams from 'Friday Night Lights,' like the cocky quarterback, and played around with that.
• Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.
• [on getting the job as a writer on "30 Rock"] I had a 'Simpsons' and 'Everybody Hates Chris' spec and I remember thinking I was never going to hear from them again. Even after meeting with Tina, I left thinking I wasn't going to get it.I don't tell a lot of other comedians the story of how I ended up there because I guess a lot of people say it's like a fairy tale. 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'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favorite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

Interesting Facts about Donald Glover

1. Auditioned to play Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live (1975) but lost to Fred Armisen.
2. Raps under the stage name Childish Gambino, which was the name he got from a Wu-Tang Name Generator he found online.
3. In 2010, while the producers of the movie The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) were casting their Peter Parker, a grassroots Internet campaign sprang up advocating for the role to go to Donald Glover. Andrew Garfield was eventually cast instead, but in 2011, when the "Ultimate" comics version of Peter Parker died, Parker was replaced as Ultimate Spider-Man by a half-black, half-Latino teen named Miles Morales, whose appearance and ethnicity were heavily influenced by Glover's (according to numerous interviews with "Ultimate" comics writer Brian Michael Bendis).
4. For his role on Community (2009), Glover was named one of the "Eight Actors Who Turn Television into Art," in a cover story of The New York Times Magazine. [September 2011]
5. In her 2011 book "Bossypants," Tina Fey said that during the early years of the show, Donald Glover was 30 Rock's only black writer. She also said that he was so young that when he started on the writing staff, he was still living in a New York University dorm and working there as a Resident Adviser. Since he came from a large family in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Fey said that Glover was especially good at writing for the character of Kenneth, who was also supposed to be from Stone Mountain.
6. Grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia. He was raised a Jehovah's Witness.
7. Became a father for the first time when his girlfriend, Michelle White, gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Legend.
8. Merited a place in TIME magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with an homage written by Tina Fey. [April 2017]
9. Brother of Stephen Glover.
10. Second African-American performer to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. He followed Robert Guillaume, who won in this category in 1985, in 2017.
11. When he decided to leave 30 Rock (2006) in 2009 to try acting, he had the full support of Tina Fey. Fey later wrote that of the many comedy writers she has known in her career who thought they should become actors, Glover was the only one she believed deserved to make it. She recalled thinking, "One hundred percent, he should go be a star.".
12. Girlfriend Michelle gave birth to their second son, Drake, in January 2018.
13. His first toy was a Star Wars action figure of Lando Calrissian.
14. Often features Flamin' Hot Cheetos in his work.
15. Followed Robert Guillaume as the second actor to win an Emmy for "Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" when he won the award in 2017.
16. Friends with Chance the Rapper.