Aisha Tyler Quotes
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Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.
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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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I'm trying my hand at directing. I'm doing an independent movie that we haven't started casting yet, but it's like an edgy version of 'Lethal Weapon' and '48 Hours,' only with two women in it.
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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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I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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.
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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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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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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 love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.
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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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I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.
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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'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
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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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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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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 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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For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.