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'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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.
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.
Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
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 would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.