Top 52 Carol Leifer Quotes

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

Carol Leifer

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#2. Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.

Carol Leifer

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#3. It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.

Carol Leifer

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#4. Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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#6. Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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#8. When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

Carol Leifer

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#9. Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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#11. The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!

Carol Leifer

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#12. Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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#14. I'm sorry I didn't have this revelation earlier. I sleep better and more soundly because I'm not participating anymore.

Carol Leifer

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#15. Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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#17. 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, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.'

Carol Leifer

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#18. I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carol Leifer

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#19. 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 or their sensibility.

Carol Leifer

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#20. 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 unique when there's fewer of you.'

Carol Leifer

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#21. My stand-up act is very clean.

Carol Leifer

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#22. Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

Carol Leifer

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#23. My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.

Carol Leifer

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#24. As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Carol Leifer

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#25. My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.'

Carol Leifer

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#26. Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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#28. Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

Carol Leifer

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#29. My father was a huge influence on me.

Carol Leifer

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#30. 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 it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

Carol Leifer

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#31. When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.

Carol Leifer

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#32. I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

Carol Leifer

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#33. When do we put on the lingerie? Always at the beginning of the relationship - first couple of months, strutting around the bedroom wearing a teddy. Yeah, six months later, you've stopped shaving your legs and you look like a teddy.

Carol Leifer

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#34. I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.

Carol Leifer

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#35. Like a lot of women, I'm bisexual. Once I have sex with you - bye!

Carol Leifer

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#36. Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.

Carol Leifer

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#37. I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name.

Carol Leifer

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#38. All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

Carol Leifer

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#39. They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Leifer

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#40. 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.

Carol Leifer

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#41. When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

Sarah Silverman

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#42. 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.

Carol Leifer

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#43. Carol Leifer is funny, really funny.

Chris Rock

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#44. Women in the workplace - we still have big strides to make. Girlfriend of mine just got a new job. First question the new boss asked her was if she could make a good cup of coffee ... Yeah, she stormed right out of that Starbucks.

Carol Leifer

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#45. If you thought you didn't like some people on land ...

Carol Leifer

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#46. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Carol Leifer

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#47. Women, stop buying the lingerie. Stop buying it right now. Oh, it's a big rip off. Oh my god, $18 bucks for panties this big? Come on, one trip through the dryer, and it's a frilly bookmark.

Carol Leifer

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#48. 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 be one more way to really tick off my mom.

Carol Leifer

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#49. I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain.

Carol Leifer

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#50. Long Island - if you're from out of town, how would I describe it? Well, every girl in my neighborhood looked like Kenny G.

Carol Leifer

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#51. You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

Carol Leifer

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#52. Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

Carol Leifer

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