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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.

Aisha Tyler

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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
Actor
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San Francisco County
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Aisha Nilaja Tyler
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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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Successful people just don't let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I'd have people come up to me after my shows, and they'd say they want to do stand-up but are scared they're going to fail. I'd tell them, You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.
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I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
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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.
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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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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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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were people want to hear about the time you blew it. So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.
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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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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 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.
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I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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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 grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
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