Aisha Tyler

I'm sure you can imagine it's pretty frustrating to have people talking about your private life who don't know anything about it.

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.

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.

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.

One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies.

It's always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

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.