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 TYLERthe freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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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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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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 spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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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’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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.
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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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