I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
AISHA TYLERI 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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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 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 like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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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 wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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