Aisha Tyler
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.
Once we decided not to get pregnant, I snapped back into work mode, and now I have just been really enjoying my career.
There's a clock ticking on the pregnancy thing, but not a clock ticking on adoption.
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.
I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.
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.
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.
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.
If you're a game company, you want to create a singular gaming experience, and part of that is doing stuff that nobody else is doing. If you're trying to create a game that feels different, you're going to create a lead that feels different. It's not going to be just another white guy.
I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.
I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.
I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.
I've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.
I really love being busy because I am - feel like I am at my best when I am busy.
For the record, I'm a clinical workaholic.
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'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 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.'
I love fashion, and I love how it makes me feel, but it doesn't rule my life.
I really try to make smart choices about my fashion and really live a life on the carpet that's the same as the life I live normally.
In my life and my work, I really try to be just fully myself.
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 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.
It's a thrill to star with such great actors like Kevin Bacon, Kelly Preston, and Garrett Hedlund.
The City gets more and more beautiful every time I come home.
I'm trying my hand at directing. I'm doing an independent movie that we haven't started casting yet, but it's like an edgy version of 'Lethal Weapon' and '48 Hours,' only with two women in it.
I'm a think gamer with twitch tendencies.
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 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 really only play shooters, which is a nice way to restrict the amount of gameplay in the house.
Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
Bravery is the engine of change.
I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'
Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
If you have a secret, and it's embarrassing to you, when you tell that story - you own it. It becomes yours, and no one can use it against you.
I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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 was this weird little bookish giant.
I might not agree with myself in a year.
Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.