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I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Improviser
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
San Francisco County
California
Aisha Nilaja Tyler
Geek
Nerd
Real
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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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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 don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I don't know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things - whereas regular people tend to run away - because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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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.
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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. I wish I could say I'm an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I've been lucky that things have come across my path and they've worked out well for me.
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I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people.
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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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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 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. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.
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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 want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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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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