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
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.
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.
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.
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch
Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now Ive learned, the hard way, that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing whats going to happen next.
Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
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.
I'm not really an impersonator.
Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.
You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.
Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.
I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.
[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.