Quotes from Aisha Tyler

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

I love fashion, and I love how it makes me feel, but it doesn't rule my life.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

I really do know football.

In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

My hands are delicate and elegant, thank you very much. They're well-kept; my nails are clean.

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.

I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.

I was always a theatrical kid.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.

I'm, like, a binge gamer.

I think, like most gamers, I talk a good game.

It's hard because you can't legislate creative diversity. I think it's more that the gaming community's more diverse, and they're going to ask for more diverse experiences. They're going to demand them.

Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'

I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.

I love women, and I have a lot of really close girlfriends, but I'm not one of those women who's like, 'Ew - that's boy stuff.'