A biography for Aisha Tylerhasn’t been written yet.
“I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“I've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.”
“I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.”
“I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.”
“Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.”
“Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.”
“The only way I was going to be funny was if I was myself, and either you liked it, or you didn't. Either you got on my train, or you didn't. Freeing myself of this idea that I had to fit a certain mold was when I was able to be my funniest.”
“On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.”