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 TYLERI was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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I really do know football.
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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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