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

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

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

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

My father was a huge influence on me.

Carol Leifer

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

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

Carol Leifer

My stand-up act is very clean.

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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

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

Carol Leifer

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

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

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer

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

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

Carol Leifer

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

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

Carol Leifer

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

Carol Leifer