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,
AISHA TYLERBut I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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I grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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