Quotes from Gilda Radner

In our show we know, if we're not getting a response, you see it in our face... we either do something to get a laugh, or the audience is in on it with us.

[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.

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

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

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.

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.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

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

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.

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.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

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

[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.

When Gene makes a movie, the people who work on it have such a love for him that the set is always a happy place.

We were married in the south of France because Gene loved France. If he could have been born French, he would have been - that was his dream.

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

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'm so full I can't hear.

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

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

I'm not really an impersonator.

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

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.