Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
AISHA TYLERSo 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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 liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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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