I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
AISHA TYLERMarriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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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Much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.
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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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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 think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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I really do know football.
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I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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