No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
AISHA TYLERI talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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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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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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 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’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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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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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 am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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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 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 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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