But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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 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 don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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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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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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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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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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