I grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
AISHA TYLERReal success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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 always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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