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.
AISHA TYLERI like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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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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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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 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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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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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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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 like grown up comedy.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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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 spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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 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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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