But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
AISHA TYLERI can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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I really do know football.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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 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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I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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 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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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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