Top 77 Aisha Tyler Quotes

I can’t say that there’s been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everything’s totally colorblind.

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.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

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

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

It’s very hard when you love someone very much to also start to realize that maybe you want different things for your lives.

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.’

I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge – feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.

I hated, when I was a kid, being told that ‘Black people don’t do that.’ And the white kids at school didn’t accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn’t accept me because they thought I thought I was white.

One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original ‘Road Warrior.’ And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Die Hard’ and, of course, all of the ‘Star Wars’ movies.

Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, not teaching assistants. I felt like that was a school where I could make a big splash. The opportunities would be grander and more robust for me there than at a school with 40,000 students.

I’d be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.

I’ve always been an outsider.

I was this weird little bookish giant.

Marriage is hard. I’m not gonna lie.

But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.

I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn’t want kids when I was in my 20s.

Bravery is the engine of change.

I like grown up comedy.

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

I was always a theatrical kid.

I see the first ‘Bourne’ movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.

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.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It’s disembowelment. It’s just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It’s not for everybody.

It’s always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.

Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I’m serious. Comedy is punishing.

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.

The more people who come forward and talk about how much they love gaming, how much they talk about individuality and diversity, the more gamers of color that come out and gay gamers that come out and everybody talking about what they love – that’s what the community has in common: a love of gaming.

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who’s gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.

I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I’ve had to say, ‘No, I grew up poor.’ And then I was like, ‘Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that’s authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?’ I mean, it’s ridiculous.

I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren’t critical.

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.

There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

My goal is definitely to direct features – action movies, that’s my favorite genre. So I would love to do the ‘Halo’ movie.

I don’t think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that’s true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.

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 really love being busy because I am – feel like I am at my best when I am busy.

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.

I’d like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

If you’re a game company, you want to create a singular gaming experience, and part of that is doing stuff that nobody else is doing. If you’re trying to create a game that feels different, you’re going to create a lead that feels different. It’s not going to be just another white guy.

I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.

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

I might not agree with myself in a year.

One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you’re more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you’re not as precious with it. You feel like, ‘This is going to land, and I’m going to be supported in this.’

I married my college boyfriend, so I’ve been with him since I was a kid.

Instead of focusing on, ‘Oh, there’s a black lady who plays videogames,’ focus on that there’s another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

I’m surrounded by geniuses, which is really not good for my own personal self-esteem!

On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.

I was raised by a single dad, and I’ve always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children – it’s honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it’s hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.

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.

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

I used to worry that if I wasn’t having a dynamic life, then I wouldn’t have anything to talk about.

I’m, like, a binge gamer.

There’s a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.

For the record, I’m a clinical workaholic.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

It’s a thrill to star with such great actors like Kevin Bacon, Kelly Preston, and Garrett Hedlund.

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

I’ve been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.

I won’t apologize for choosing my career over kids.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

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