I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
AISHA TYLERI’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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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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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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