I 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.
AISHA TYLERI take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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 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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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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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