GILDA RADNER

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

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

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.

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

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.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

I'm so full I can't hear.

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.

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.

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

I'm not really an impersonator.

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.

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

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

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.

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

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

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

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.