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.
AISHA TYLERSo what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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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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My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
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I like grown up comedy.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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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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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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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 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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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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