I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
AISHA TYLERI love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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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 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 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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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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.
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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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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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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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