This section contains Quotes by the world famous actress and celebrity Gilda Radner

People want to peg you. I don’t care if I ever do Roseanne Roseannadanna again. I’d rather force myself to come up with someone new.
- Gilda Radner

Here it is: I had a cyst removed from an ovary and lost ten pounds and kept it off. So tell everyone: chew a lot of gum and have major surgery.
- Gilda Radner

I’ve been spending a year just looking for the sky. New York is really a weird place. You can’t tell if it’s the moon up there or just another street light. It’s the only place in the world you can step out of a stretch limo right into a steaming pile of dog****.
- Gilda Radner

But I don’t understand people who say they can’t be funny in real life because it would use things up. That’s like saying you can’t write but so many songs because there’s only so many notes.
- Gilda Radner

But, comedy albums–- that’s one of the saddest sections in the whole record store. They don’t even have fingerprints on them. What I would like would be for my album to be played in a supermarket. If they would play my album over the PA system and people would shop to it
- Gilda Radner

Show business is the opportunity to pretend. And, get scared. And, not be mediocre–- get everybody to look at you. And, you get to make people feel, ya know? I’ve got to work just as hard at that with one person as I do with 40 million people.
- Gilda Radner

Funny is the thin side of being fat.
- Gilda Radner

I want people to like me, but the more people like you, you realize how much you just want a few people to like you, who you can phone. Having the world love you is not gratifying because you don’t know their phone numbers.
- Gilda Radner

I’m always there. I’m 32 years old. I like people. I like my job That person who loves doing it is always there. I don’t want to miss the joke. I’m there taking care of you while I’m doing the job.
- Gilda Radner

I grew up in front of television, I guess I’ll grow old inside one.
- Gilda Radner

I’ll be like a coaster in millions of homes in America. All week, people will be putting their beer on my face.
- Gilda Radner

I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.
- Gilda Radner

There’s always a moment before I go on Saturday Night Live that I go “I’m gonna–- I’m gonna fall over and I won’t be able to do it.” And, intense fear, and then right before I go on, there’s a moment that I CAN’T wait to go on!
- Gilda Radner

I would say that Lucy, I Love Lucy, she was my idol.
- Gilda Radner

I could make a stab at “gorgeous” as long as I had something funny to say to get me out of it.
- Gilda Radner

I just want to be the right AMOUNT of “in touch” with childhood, that’s all.
- Gilda Radner

I have the opportunity, as a performer, to–- to test anything I want to, or come up with ideas, or fulfill anything I want to pretend, and there aren’t many jobs like that available to performers.
- Gilda Radner

I’m not really an impersonator.
- Gilda Radner

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