I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
AISHA TYLERYou can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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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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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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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 have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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 really do know football.
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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’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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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 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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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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