Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
AISHA TYLERI’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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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.
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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 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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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I like grown up comedy.
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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