Gilda Radner Quotes - Page 2

[Emily Litella line:] Never mind.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

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 have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but it a guy made me laugh-and that didn't mean he had to be in comedy professionally - I was hooked.

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

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.

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.

I'm not really an impersonator.

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

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.

It's always something

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

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

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

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.

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.