I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
AISHA TYLERI’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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I 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.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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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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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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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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I 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.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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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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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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