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.
AISHA TYLERThe best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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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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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 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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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 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 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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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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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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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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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