Zitat des Tages von Aisha Tyler:
I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.
Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.
Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
I was this weird little bookish giant.
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.
There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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.
I love women, and I have a lot of really close girlfriends, but I'm not one of those women who's like, 'Ew - that's boy stuff.'
Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.
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.
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.
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 married my college boyfriend, so I've been with him since I was a kid.
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.
On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
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.
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.
Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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 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.
I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.
I've always been an outsider.
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.
I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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.
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.
I might not agree with myself in a year.
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.