Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.
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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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I've said this before, and I'm sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of the reasons there aren't a lot more women in stand-up - and there are many more now; it's not parity, but it's getting there - is that women are not socialized to look stupid or silly. They're socialized to be pretty and precious.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.
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I tell jokes, chat with people, and make stuff.
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I try to do more intelligent roles, unusual roles, and stronger women, and that's helped me a little bit with my casting opportunities.
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My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.
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I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.
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I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.
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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.
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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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I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.
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My hands are delicate and elegant, thank you very much. They're well-kept; my nails are clean.
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Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.
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For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
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We were poor. My mother got our clothes out of the free box at the church, you know? So much of when you're a kid is about relating about what you watch on TV. And who's got these cooler shoes, and 'Let's trade lunches.' And I was just like, 'I don't have a television. I have a rock and a piece of tofu.'
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I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everything's totally colorblind.
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In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.
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I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
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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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I married my college boyfriend, so I've been with him since I was a kid.
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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.