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.
AISHA TYLERReal sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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 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.
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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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If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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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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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’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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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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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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