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.
AISHA TYLERI will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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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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 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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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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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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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 my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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