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,
AISHA TYLERI 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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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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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 like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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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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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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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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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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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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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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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’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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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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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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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 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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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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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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