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.

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.

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

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

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

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