25 Astonishing Quotes From Aisha Tyler

25 Astonishing Quotes From Aisha Tylere

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

— Aisha Tyler

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.

— Aisha Tyler

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

— Aisha Tyler

I'm, like, a binge gamer.

— Aisha Tyler

I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.

— Aisha Tyler

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.

— Aisha Tyler

I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.

— Aisha Tyler

For the record, I'm a clinical workaholic.

— Aisha Tyler

My hands are delicate and elegant, thank you very much. They're well-kept; my nails are clean.

— Aisha Tyler

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.

— Aisha Tyler

Bravery is the engine of change.

— Aisha Tyler

I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Galaga' and 'Tempest' and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he's playing 'Ms. Pac-man' and hold the phone up to the game.

— Aisha Tyler

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.

— Aisha Tyler

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.'

— Aisha Tyler

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

— Aisha Tyler

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

— Aisha Tyler

The only way I was going to be funny was if I was myself, and either you liked it, or you didn't. Either you got on my train, or you didn't. Freeing myself of this idea that I had to fit a certain mold was when I was able to be my funniest.

— Aisha Tyler

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.

— Aisha Tyler

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.

— Aisha Tyler

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.

— Aisha Tyler

God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

— Aisha Tyler

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

— Aisha Tyler

I've always been an outsider.

— Aisha Tyler

I really only play shooters, which is a nice way to restrict the amount of gameplay in the house.

— Aisha Tyler

If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren't doing comedy that fit that mold.

— Aisha Tyler

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