I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
AISHA TYLERNo one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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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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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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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 will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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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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 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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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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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 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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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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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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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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 want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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