No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
AISHA TYLERWhereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.
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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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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’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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I like grown up comedy.
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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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