I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
AISHA TYLERI 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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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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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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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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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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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 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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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 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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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