Carol Leifer Quotes

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• It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.
• Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.
• All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.
• As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.
• I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more…
• I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.
• 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.
• I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to…
• 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…
• I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple,…
• I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So…
• I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
• I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy…
• My stand-up act is very clean.
• My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'
• Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.
• My father was a huge influence on me.
• 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.

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