Aisha Tyler Quotes

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it's important to reflect where I'm at mentally.

Not only am I a shy person, I take a little while to say what I mean, especially in a social situation, and usually those move too fast for me to say anything at all.

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.

Even when I become a regular, I don't feel comfortable and try to always improve more.

Some friends think I'm dull now. But I think it's great that I'm no longer trying to make everyone laugh in the pub.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

I wasn't always this introverted.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.