Quotes from Aisha Tyler

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.

If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.

The more people who come forward and talk about how much they love gaming, how much they talk about individuality and diversity, the more gamers of color that come out and gay gamers that come out and everybody talking about what they love - that's what the community has in common: a love of gaming.

I'm a think gamer with twitch tendencies.

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.

I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.

Standup comedy is inordinately difficult. If doing something else for a living will make you equally happy, choose that instead. I'm serious. Comedy is punishing.

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

I really only play shooters, which is a nice way to restrict the amount of gameplay in the house.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

I try to do more intelligent roles, unusual roles, and stronger women, and that's helped me a little bit with my casting opportunities.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.

I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.

I was like, 'I want us to stop using that term. I'm not a 'girl gamer.' I'm just a gamer.' The reasons I love gaming are the same reasons everyone loves gaming.