Carol Leifer Quotes

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.

Stand-up is hard.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.

One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

Actually, I think I'm funnier off-camera.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.