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.’
AISHA TYLEROne 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I 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.
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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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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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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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