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Aisha Tyler, born on September 18, 1970, is a versatile American actress. She is well-known in the entertainment industry for her talents, which span across film, television, and comedy. Tyler gained widespread recognition for her role as Laurie Dwyer in 'The Office' and for her recurring role in 'Criminal Minds'. Additionally, she has hosted several television shows, including 'American Idol' and 'Last Call with Carson Daly'.

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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.”

Shows Kids School Parent Black Clothes Sticks Giants Vegetarian Sandwiches Tofu Celery

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“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.”

Want Looks Left Behinds Fire Stones Slow Down Wreckage

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“Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.”

Want Culture Failing Pops Pop Culture Hale

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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 am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.”

Long Fans Baby Long Time Giants Dynasty

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“I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.”

I Can Glamorous

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“I like grown up comedy.”

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“I really do know football.”

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

Doe Black Cracks

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

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“I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.”

Levels Childhood Lows Low Level

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“I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.”

Littles Bits My Own Little Bit Supportive

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“Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.”

Men Littles Hands Nails

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“On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.”

Shows Actors Principles Boycott

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“Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.”

Culture Pops Pop Culture

Book:Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl

Source: Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl

“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.”

Art Government Policy Majors Environmental Attorney Dartmouth Environmental Policy

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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.”

Moments Childhood Painful Torture Brushes Amusement Painful Moments

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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.”

People Looks Young Guy Like You Yeah Recognizing

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“The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.”

Given Advice Best Advice

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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.”

People Thinking Want Shows Comfortable Who You Are Foibles

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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.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Persons Stories Running Running Away Embarrassing Funny Story

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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.”

Knows Wanted Comedy Attorney

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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.”

Done Pressure Busy Overwhelmed Under Pressure

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“Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.”

Kind Mystery Selfish Be Kind Just Being Being Selfish

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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.”

Needs Kind Order Born Fiction Fit Standards And Love Science Fiction Raised I Realized California Vegetarian Comment Bothered Science Love

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“I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.”

Levels Periods Gamer Gaming Hardcore

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“I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked "guys" stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.”

Thinking Kind Guy Stuff Dad Raised My Dad Single Dad

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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.”

School Guy Car Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Teenager Grades Closest Motorcycle Grades In School Closest Friends

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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.”

Knows Men Guy Company Girlfriend Close Friends Good Girl Good Girlfriend

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“I have one girlfriend who is dating right now - she's divorced - and she's on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that's not a real game, but it's my favorite thing to do.”

Knows Real Play Games Right Now Dating My Favorite Things To Do Girlfriend Divorced Favorites Things Tinder

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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."”

People Thinking Want Sides Love Is Husband Married Grass My Husband Trust Me Being Married Greener Grass Is Greener Love My Husband I Love My Husband

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“I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.”

Thinking Married Douches

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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.”

People Challenges

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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.”

Thinking Want Grateful Bad Things

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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.”

People Thinking Sometimes Mistake Impossible

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“I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I'd still have plenty of other things to do.”

Ifs Stills Wanted Jobs Busy Plenty Things To Do

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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.”

Thinking Trying Important Ideas Opportunity Television Diversity Eyeballs Quota

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“TV always wants more people to be watching.”

People Want Tvs

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“I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.”

People Audience Versions Hopefully Being The Best Find Me

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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.”

Writing Wells Speak Audience Comedy One Thing Archer

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“I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me.”

Knows Enough Audience Smart Treats

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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.”

Way Want Trying Different Different Ways Good Times Having A Good Time

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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.”

People Want Couple Faults

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“I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.”

People Want Feels Feelings Nice Hero Deserve Being Nice Zombie

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“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 Can Life Is Three Term Minutes Radio Stranger Spots

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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."”

People Successful Failing Scared Successful People

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“I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college, I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn't performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.”

People Kids Growing Up Comedy Focus College Unhappy Miserable Comedian Performing Academic Attorney Great Job

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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.”

Done Wish Path Lucky Busy Honestly Architect Overwhelmed Under Pressure

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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.”

Giving Writing Eye Giving Up Bones Performing First Love

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“I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person's interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.”

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About the Author

Born: September 18, 1970
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 72

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