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I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
Aisha Tyler
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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
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San Francisco County
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Aisha Nilaja Tyler
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I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
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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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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love it's how I got started and is in my bones.
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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 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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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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way. I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be. So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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.
Aisha Tyler
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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