Aisha Tyler Quotes

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

I don't really do stand-up.

I did, like, one or two plays in high school, but I don't think I realized I wanted to do comedy until I got to college, and I started doing improv and saw the Upright Citizens Brigade perform and did workshops with them.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

Overall, I just love performing so much that when I write, I want to write for me. I kind of learned that on 'Mr. Show,' that even in an environment where you can write whatever you want - which is what that environment was - I realized, 'Man, I still want to be the guy out in front.'

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

All I knew is that I loved movies and comedy and TV, and I wanted to perform. I made a bunch of shorts and movies in college, and that was always fun too. I directed some plays in college. It was taking it all in and trying to immerse myself in as much of it as possible.

I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.

When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.