16 Gilda Radner Quotes

Gilda Radner quotes

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

2. 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. 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.

3. 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 we put into every moment is all we have: What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal - all the pleasures of life, and then death.

4. Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

1. There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make all the difference in our lives.

2. It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

3. [Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

4. Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

5. Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

6. 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!

7. When the journalists asked Gene, 'Why didn't you marry the beautiful girl in 'The Woman in Red'?' he would always reply, 'I did!'

8. 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.

9. Humor is just truth, only faster!

10. I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

11. Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

12. I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.