When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
AISHA TYLERI 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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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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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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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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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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