Top 34 Gilda Best Quotes
#1. I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.
Gilda Radner
#2. 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.
Gilda Radner
#3. You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
Gilda Radner
#4. 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.
Gilda Radner
#5. I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.
Paul Shaffer
#6. Never let a gynecologist put anything in your nose.
Gilda Radner
#8. 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.
Gilda Radner
#9. 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!
Gilda Radner
#10. Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda ... and woke up with me.
Rita Hayworth
#11. Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.
Rita Hayworth
#13. 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.
Gilda Radner
#14. There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.
Gilda Radner
#15. 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.
Gilda Radner
#16. 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.
Gilda Radner
#17. 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.
Gilda Radner
#18. 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.
Gilda Radner
#19. Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Gilda Radner
#20. Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Gilda Radner
#21. I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.
Gilda Radner
#22. I think dogs are the most amazing creatures;
they give unconditional love.
For me they are the role model for being alive.
Gilda Radner
#23. My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that,
Gilda Radner
#24. I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
Tracey Ullman
#25. So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.
Chelsea Peretti
#26. The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.
Anne Beatts
#27. The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.
Tina Fey
#28. I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner
#29. While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner
#31. 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.
Gilda Radner
#32. 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.
Gilda Radner
#33. Rita Hayworth in Gilda ... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.
Donna Mills
#34. I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I'm not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.
Jenny Slate
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