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

The way I always feel is that Saturday Night Live is–- we do an under-rehearsed Off-Broadway show every week and we have opening night every week.
- Gilda Radner

A lot of my characters had a lot to do with growing up and I got a direct line to being a little girl, still, but I don’t want it to be, um–- invade my life as much as it has. I’m less afraid to grow up.
- Gilda Radner

When I’m doing Judy Miller, it’s amazing how my mind clears away. I have to just completely forget about whether people are looking up my skirt, and just flop around and be five.
- Gilda Radner

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can’t change a lightbulb.
- Gilda Radner

I like a really big purse, and I mean really big. I always like to take a little of home with me wherever I go. People laugh at me, but they’re the same ones that always need a toenail clipper or a big steel file that they end up borrowing from me.
- Gilda Radner

I found that I could defuse whatever people might say about me being fat by joking first. That way they would have to deal with me as a person. If you can decide to be funny, I decided it then. I knew I wasn’t going to make it on my looks.
- Gilda Radner

I guess in France, you don’t order French fries. You just order fries. They’ll know.
- Gilda Radner

I can always be distracted by love, but, eventually, I get horny for my creativity.
- Gilda Radner

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
- Gilda Radner

I had been a fan of Gene Wilder’s for many years, but the first time I saw him in person, my heart fluttered– I was hooked. It felt like my life went from black and white to Technicolor.
- Gilda Radner

Adopted kids are such a pain– you have to teach them how to look like you.
- Gilda Radner

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
- Gilda Radner

My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.
- Gilda Radner

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
- Gilda Radner

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.
- Gilda Radner

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
- Gilda Radner

Comedy is very controlling -- you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase "making people laugh." You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
- Gilda Radner

I'm so full I can't hear.
- Gilda Radner

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
- Gilda Radner

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. (in her autobiography, It's Always Something.
- Gilda Radner

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
- Gilda Radner

It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!
- Gilda Radner

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