82 Quotes by Carol Leifer

My father was a huge influence on me.

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it.

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.