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.
AISHA TYLERI’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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 just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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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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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.’
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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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 best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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