I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
AISHA TYLERI don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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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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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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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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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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I like grown up comedy.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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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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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 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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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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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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.
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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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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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