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.
AISHA TYLERI 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
-
-
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 TYLER -
I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
AISHA TYLER -
No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
AISHA TYLER -
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.
AISHA TYLER -
I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
AISHA TYLER -
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.
AISHA TYLER -
I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
AISHA TYLER -
I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.
AISHA TYLER -
I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
AISHA TYLER -
Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
AISHA TYLER -
Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
AISHA TYLER -
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 TYLER -
When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
AISHA TYLER -
You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
AISHA TYLER -
I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
AISHA TYLER






