Aisha Tyler

I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren't critical.

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.

I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everything's totally colorblind.

I'd be plenty happy if I could keep playing scientists and cops for the rest of my career.

I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.

Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.

I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.

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

Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.

I wasn't mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn't able to have kids naturally. I don't regret it.

I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.