Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
AISHA TYLEROn general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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I really do know football.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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 like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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