Quotes from Aisha Tyler

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

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

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.

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

I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this awesome 'Halo: Reach' backpack. Usually, when you get stuff like that, it either ends up in the garage or going to charity. But I walk around with that 'Halo: Reach' backpack all the time, and I drink out of my 'Halo: Reach' bottle every day.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

I like grown up comedy.

I've said this before, and I'm sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of the reasons there aren't a lot more women in stand-up - and there are many more now; it's not parity, but it's getting there - is that women are not socialized to look stupid or silly. They're socialized to be pretty and precious.

Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.

I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.

I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.

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.

I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.

It's very hard when you love someone very much to also start to realize that maybe you want different things for your lives.

I believe in hard work. I think that everything flows out of that.

For the record, I'm a clinical workaholic.

My dad, he was a construction worker. He was a butcher. He was a deep sea fisherman.

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.

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

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've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.

I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.