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.
AISHA TYLERI don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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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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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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