Top 181 Quotes & Sayings by Aisha Tyler
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.
I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everything's totally colorblind.
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
It's hard because you can't legislate creative diversity. I think it's more that the gaming community's more diverse, and they're going to ask for more diverse experiences. They're going to demand them.
Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
I might not agree with myself in a year.
Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
I am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.
Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.
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.
It's very hard when you love someone very much to also start to realize that maybe you want different things for your lives.
I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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.
I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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.
I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.
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.
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.
I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this awesome 'Halo: Reach' backpack. Usually, when you get stuff like that, it either ends up in the garage or going to charity. But I walk around with that 'Halo: Reach' backpack all the time, and I drink out of my 'Halo: Reach' bottle every day.
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.
For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.
On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.
Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.
My hands are delicate and elegant, thank you very much. They're well-kept; my nails are clean.
There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
I really do know football.
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.
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.
The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
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.
You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.
I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.
I wasn't mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn't able to have kids naturally. I don't regret it.
One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you're more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you're not as precious with it. You feel like, 'This is going to land, and I'm going to be supported in this.'
I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
Bravery is the engine of change.
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.
There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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.
But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.
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.
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.
I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
I was this weird little bookish giant.
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.
I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.
My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.
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.
I like grown up comedy.
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