Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner
Gilda Susan Radnerwas an American comedian and actress. She is best remembered as an original cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. In her routines, Radner specialized in broad and obnoxious parodies of television stereotypes such as annoying advice specialists and news anchors. She also portrayed these characters in her successful one-woman show on Broadway in 1979. When Radner died from ovarian cancer in 1989, her legacy from SNL established her as an important figure in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth28 June 1946
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
I love being a woman. You can cry. You get to wear pants now. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. You get to wear cute clothes. It must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it.
My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that,
Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. ... What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.
... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.
You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
It's always something
I would rather be funny than gorgeous, absolutely. Because it's too hard to be gorgeous, you know. I could make a stab at gorgeous as long as I had something funny to say to get out of it.
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.
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!
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.
What we put into every moment is all we have. You can drug yourself to death or you can smoke yourself to death or eat yourself to death, or you can do everything right and be healthy and then get hit by a car. Life is so great, such a neat thing, and yet all during it we have to face death, which can make you nuts and depressed.