On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
AISHA TYLERWhen one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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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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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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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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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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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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I like grown up comedy.
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I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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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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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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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 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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I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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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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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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