Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
AISHA TYLERI always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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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 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 grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
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If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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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 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 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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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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 was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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I like grown up comedy.
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I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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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 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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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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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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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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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