Aisha Tyler Quotes

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

So many people were ready to write me off as being washed up at 20, I started to believe all that negative stuff myself.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself.

There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.

The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring.

I see them turn around to get a second look. You hear a lot of people laugh at you. So what? I used to get upset about it, but not anymore. You know, laugh all you can.

I think it's the same for everyone in any walk of life - if people put you down, you want to prove a point.

People say, 'You're overweight'; they question your heart and character. It's a challenge again, proving to myself and to other people that I'm still here, I still have what it takes.

Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

It's taken me a long, long time to figure out how to deal with negativity, because it used to really upset me. I was always that girl that, if I was performing in the club and there was one person not paying attention or not liking me, the whole club could be packed with people loving me, but I'd be obsessed with that one person.

I'm kind of a smaller guy in my given profession, and people always told me I'm too small, so I know how it feels to have people tell you you'll never be anything.

You never want to hear your name get booed, but it's fine. I'm not going to let it bother me because I know what type of guy I am.

I don't get why people look at me the way they do. They doubted me the first time I became a world champion. Then, I fought Sadam Ali, who was a boogeyman in the division at the time, and won my second title and they were still doubting me.