Quotes from Aisha Tyler

I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren't critical.

I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.

I've always been an outsider.

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.

I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Galaga' and 'Tempest' and grew up on the standing arcade games. Even to this day, my dad will call me if he's playing 'Ms. Pac-man' and hold the phone up to the game.

Sunday is like this entertainment scrum for me, because I've only got a day, one day of fun. So I want to have brunch, and I want to see a movie, and I want to watch 'Game of Thrones,' and I'm trying to watch 'The Sopranos' from the beginning, and I want to play four hours of video games. So, it's, like, as regimented as my work life.

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It's disembowelment. It's just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It's not for everybody.

I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.