Aisha Tyler quotes:

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.

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 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.

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.

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

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

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.

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.

A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.

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."

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

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.

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.

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.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

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

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

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

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

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

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

I like grown up comedy.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail."

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.

Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.

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

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

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

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.

Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

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.

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

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.

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

If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome. It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon. If you ever needed to ruin someone's fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.

I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.

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

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 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.

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

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

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.

I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.

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

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

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.

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.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

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

I really do know football.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They always say some women like to fix people. I don't like to fix people, but you like a challenge.

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.

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.

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

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.