Wendy Liebman Quotations

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

If you've got a brand like this, any brand in fact, you need to stay true to your roots if you want to maintain your distinctiveness, it's very easy to start to lose that edge by appealing to a very broad audience,

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

I'm going to get married again because I'm more mature now, and I need some kitchen stuff.

I don't like to channel surf. You guys like it, don't you. You guys like to change the channel. We like to change you.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

I just got my first bikini. It's a three-piece: a top, a botton, and a blindfold for you.

I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.

People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them....well it's killing me!

The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.

I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.