Gilda Radner

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

“Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.”

“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.”

“My father had a hotel, and people in show business used to stay there. He loved peformers and entertainment, and I grew up knowing that.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

“Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.”

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

“I don't miss 'Saturday Night Live.' I feel less of a need for the fulfillment that performance used to give... I don't have to do everything right away. As long as I can walk and jump, I'll still perform, but I no longer feel such a compulsion.”

“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.”

“Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.”

“I'm so full I can't hear.”

“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.”

“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.”

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

“Did I become an entertainer because my father died and I wanted to be what he loved? I don't know.”

“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.”