Aisha Tyler Quotes

You're always going to have typecasting, especially with TV.

In our film industry I've realised actresses are not respected at all.

A film is made for actors and actresses, not for singers.

Many talented actors have come into this industry and, in spite of their best efforts, haven't been able to win over the audience.

Actresses in this industry do not talk to one another.

I've been fighting BDS before people even knew that BDS existed.

I don't vote and I don't follow who's trying to rule us. The revolution is coming. Until then, I'll just watch 'Game of Thrones.'

If I become an MP I'll work for both Bollywood and Tollywood, specially for the old and out of work technicians. This is not an idle promise, Bappi Lahiri will keep his word.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

Television is a huge industry, and actors down south are aware of it.

Americans should boycott Yahoo products until they get the message that freedom is an American ideal, and we're not going to give it up.

We will protect our constitutional right to boycott, divest, and sanctions in this country.

Music that speaks of politics is less listened to than the music of partying, but it's still there.

Shake any institution of higher learning, and a dozen boycotters will fall out of it.

I've been arrested a few times. The most high-profile instance was when protesting at the fracking site in Balcombe. It's an industry which will undermine our chances of tackling climate change.

We played video games and read books, and we went to public school. And yeah, we went to amusement parks. We did all of those things, but we also - that was all sort of organized around this nationwide picketing campaign.

Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together.

Web series is an outing that is favourable to actors.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

What I find really astonishing is how quiet everybody is in my industry. I mean, nobody in the entertainment business except for maybe a handful of people ever speak out about what's going on. Nobody takes a political stance or expresses an opinion.

When people start to complain, "Voting doesn't matter," I'm like, the people of Wisconsin weren't boycotting and hitting the streets and blowing up those rooms because voting didn't change those situations for them. That was their livelihood. There's revolution going on all over the world because they actually can't have a voice.

Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.

[Donald Trump] is not cool and therefore they're very proudly pointing out that none of them are gonna perform at his inauguration.