You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
AISHA TYLERNothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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 was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.
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I like grown up comedy.
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I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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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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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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 thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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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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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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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 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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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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