I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I like grown up comedy.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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So 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.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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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 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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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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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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