I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
AISHA TYLERI don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I really do know football.
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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I like grown up comedy.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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