Aisha Tyler

Actress

1970-09-18

Aisha Tyler is an American actress, comedian, and television host. She has appeared in television series including Friends, CSI, and Criminal Minds, and hosted multiple talk and reality programs. She is also known for voice acting and directing work.

Quotes by Aisha Tyler

Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
Sunday is like this entertainment scrum for me, because I've only got a day, one day of fun. So I want to have brunch, and I want to see a movie, and I want to watch 'Game of Thrones,' and I'm trying to watch 'The Sopranos' from the beginning, and I want to play four hours of video games. So, it's, like, as regimented as my work life.
Read quote
Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Read quote
There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
Read quote
Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.
Read quote
I'm a think gamer with twitch tendencies.
Read quote
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
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.
Read quote
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.
Read quote
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.
Read quote