Wendy Liebman Quotes

• 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.

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Comedian, Festivals, Participate

• 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.

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Confidence, Laughter

• 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.

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Acting and the Theatre

• 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.

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Education, Funny

  Tags in Don't, Think

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

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Divorce

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

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blind

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

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Smoking

• 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.

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Mom

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

  Wendy Liebman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents

Wendy Liebman (9)

Birth:	27th February, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian

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