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.
AISHA TYLERIf you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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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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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 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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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Much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.
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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 will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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