“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
AISHA TYLERIf 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.
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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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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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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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