But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
AISHA TYLERI 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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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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So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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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.
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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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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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’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I really do know football.
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I’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 do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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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.
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