Aisha Tyler Quotes

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo.

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

I was told at first that being different was a bad thing. Everywhere I went, it was just, 'You're too different'... And it turned out that being different was the best thing that ever happened to my career. It is why people travel to my shows. It's why people want to hear my story and buy my book.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

Embrace your weirdness!

Don't try to fit in or stand out - just be yourself.

Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely weird, aint nothing wrong with that.

One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.

A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

I have never limited myself by focusing much on being a 'normal' teenager.

If you're different, or if you think something about you is just weird and out of the ordinary, I just think that's so dope.

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

Without trying, I'm different.

Let's embrace being not normal!