Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.
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Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.
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I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.
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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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I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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I was like, 'I want us to stop using that term. I'm not a 'girl gamer.' I'm just a gamer.' The reasons I love gaming are the same reasons everyone loves gaming.
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I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.
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I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.
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There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
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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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Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.
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A lot of people try to control how you access gaming. You know, they're trying to prevent people from buying games.
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Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
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The more people who come forward and talk about how much they love gaming, how much they talk about individuality and diversity, the more gamers of color that come out and gay gamers that come out and everybody talking about what they love - that's what the community has in common: a love of gaming.
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I'm sure you can imagine it's pretty frustrating to have people talking about your private life who don't know anything about it.
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If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.
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I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.
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I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.
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I love women, and I have a lot of really close girlfriends, but I'm not one of those women who's like, 'Ew - that's boy stuff.'
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You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.
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Bravery is the engine of change.
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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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I've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.
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I'm, like, a binge gamer.