My parents were vegetarians. Id show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks. – Aisha Tyler
I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didnt do anything academically around the arts. – Aisha Tyler
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. – Aisha Tyler
The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness. – Aisha Tyler
I definitely wasnt cool in high school. I really wasnt. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things. – Dianna Agron