Top 60 Aisha Tyler Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.”

— Aisha Tyler

2. “Karaoke is the great equalizer.”

— Aisha Tyler

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

— Aisha Tyler

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

— Aisha Tyler

5. “I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.”

— Aisha Tyler

6. “I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.”

— Aisha Tyler

7. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

8. “I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.”

— Aisha Tyler

9. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

10. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

11. “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.””

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12. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

13. “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.”

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14. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

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

— Aisha Tyler

16. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

17. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

18. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

19. “Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”

— Aisha Tyler

20. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

21. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

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

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23. “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.”

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24. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

25. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

26. “I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.”

— Aisha Tyler

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

— Aisha Tyler

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

— Aisha Tyler

29. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

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

— Aisha Tyler

31. “They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.”

— Aisha Tyler

32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

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

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35. “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.”

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

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

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38. “I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.”

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39. “I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.”

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40. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

41. “Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.”

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

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

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44. “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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45. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

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

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47. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

48. “I really do know football.”

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49. “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.”

— Aisha Tyler

50. “I like grown up comedy.”

— Aisha Tyler