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.
AISHA TYLERBut I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I 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.
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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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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 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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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 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 are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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.
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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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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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