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.
AISHA TYLERI do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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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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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 spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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 visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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