The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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I 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.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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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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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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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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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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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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 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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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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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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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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 like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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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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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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