Top 73 Aisha Tyler Quotes
#1. TV always wants more people to be watching.
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#2. 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, 'You just have to keep getting up'. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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#3. On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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#7. I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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#8. And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
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#9. 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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#10. The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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#11. 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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#12. I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. 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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#13. How can you not tweet? How else will people know what you ate for breakfast or what you are listening to on Spotify or what your gamerscore is? Ridiculous. Not tweeting is not an option. I am a dolt for even suggesting it.
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#14. Guys as a gender have one giant collective delusion of grandeur.
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#15. Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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#17. I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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#18. You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - 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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#19. Get up, go out into the world, and do awesome shit.
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#20. I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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#21. I think diversity in television is important. It's not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity, but I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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#22. I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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#26. You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.
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#27. 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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#28. People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
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#29. 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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#30. A bra was not for little kids who dreamed of being astronauts. What are you gonna do with boobs in space? Unless they are currency for some far-flung civilization, all they're going to do is interfere with proper oxygen flow inside your space suit.
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#31. I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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#33. The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
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#34. Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.
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#35. I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. 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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#36. 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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#37. I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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#38. I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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#39. Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.
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#40. I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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#41. You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.
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#42. 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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#43. No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it. 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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#44. 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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#45. Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. I 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.
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#49. I was this weird little bookish giant.
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#50. 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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#51. I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.
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#52. Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
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#53. 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 - whereas regular people tend to run away - because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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#54. I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
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#55. I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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#56. One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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#57. 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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#58. 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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#59. When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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#60. Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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#61. Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, "Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people."
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#65. Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
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#66. I might not agree with myself in a year.
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#67. Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. Just give me a second to get my wind back. Who the hell put that pole there?
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#73. You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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