On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
AISHA TYLERI am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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 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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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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 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 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 love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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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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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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