It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
AISHA TYLERI’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I really do know football.
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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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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 think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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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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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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 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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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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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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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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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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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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