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.
Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase 'making people laugh.' 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.
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
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.
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'm so full I can't hear.
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.
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, 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.
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.
You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
Gilda worked as a junior counselor at her beloved summer camp, Camp Tamakwa (Algonquin Provicial Park, Ontario, Canada) at age sixteen. Chevy Chase, fellow cast member of the televison comedy series, Saturday Night Live, is also an alumnus of Camp Tamakwa.
Gilda broke a rib during the dress rehearsal of “The Judy Miller Show,” a Saturday Night Live sketch about a little girl who stays in her bedroom doing shows and commercials, puts on costumes and has imaginary adventures. The character required her to run into a closed closet door several times, causing the injury. Gilda had the rib taped and performed that evening.
Gilda had a reputation for bringing in homemade cookies to the Saturday Night Live studio.
Gilda was a tremendous dancer. She and Saturday Night Live writer (1975-1979), Marilyn Miller took private tap lessons to relax during the production of Saturday Night Live.
Gilda repeatedly listened to the soundtrack from the film, Out of Africa, to help her relax when she experienced sleep difficulties during her course of chemotherapy to treat her ovarian cancer.
Gilda loved literature and poetry; Charles Dickens and Emily Dickinson were among her favorites.
Gilda started smoking at age fourteen.
Gilda began her broadcasting career as a weather girl for college radio station, WCBN, while enrolled at the University of Michigan.
Gilda once came to the NBC Saturday Night Live (comedy series) studio in her pajamas to write comedy material in the middle of the night.
Gilda registered under the name Lily Herman when she was admitted to the hospital for diagnostic tests and subsequent surgery and cancer treatment to protect her identity: Lily for the name she had always wanted to name her first daughter, and her father’s name, Herman.
Gilda’s likeness was immortalized as a paper doll by Anne Beattes for Above Average Products in 1979. Avon Books published The Gilda Paper Doll Cut-Out Book the same year, featuring a cardboard Gilda of the late 1970's Saturday Night Live NBC comedy series, along with nineteen cut-out ensembles and wigs, enabling her to be dressed as a variety of her Saturday Night Live characters. The booklet also included a collection of funny quotes taken from the characters.
Gilda was photographed by renowned photographer, Francesco Scavullo, for the November 2, 1978 cover of Rolling Stone.
Gilda’s family held a small, private funeral for her on May 24, 1989. It was a rainy day. In lieu of flowers, they requested donations be made to The Wellness Community, a cancer support system Gilda enlisted while battling her illness.
Gilda was on the cover of the March 1, 1988 issue of Life Magazine which featured an article with her answer to cancer: healing the body with mind and heart.
Gilda and husband, Gene Wilder’s, first Christmas card together was a photograph of them at home in Los Angeles, California, in their four-poster bed.
Gilda performed as 18 different characters and impersonated 18 different celebrities during her five seasons on the NBC comedy series, Saturday Night Live.
Gilda won a Grammy after her death for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording in 1990.
Gilda fulfilled her lifelong dream of performing on Broadway with her 1979 one-woman show, Gilda Radner: Live From New York. Musician, Paul Shaffer, and comedian Don Novello, as character Father Guido Sarducci, were featured. A film version and album of the Broadway performance were produced the following year under the title Gilda Live, but both proved to be unsuccessful.
Gilda was offered her own prime time variety show in 1979 by NBC President Fred Silverman, but she turned down the offer.
Gilda, tired from the grueling schedule, left the NBC comedy series, Saturday Night Live, after her fifth season (1979-1980) to pursue Broadway.
Gilda underwent 9 rounds of chemotherapy and 30 radiation treatments during her battle with cancer.
Gilda, after being diagnosed with Stage III ovarian cancer, underwent a total hysterectomy, at which time, a grapefruit-size tumor was surgically removed.
Gilda was overweight as a child and struggled with body image issues her entire life.
Gilda appeared in an off-Broadway production of The National Lampoon Show, a satirical revue in 1975.
Gilda dropped out of college to follow her sculptor boyfriend to Toronto, Canada where being a housewife did not work out.
Gilda commuted from the United States and France while filming Haunted Honeymoon in England, rather than be separated from her beloved Yorkshire terrier, Sparkle. Unlike the United States and France, the United Kingdom required a six month quarantine for animals entering the country, something Gilda was unwilling to subject her dog to.
Gilda, as a member of Toronto’s improvisational comedy troupe, Second City, joined forces with Chicago’s legendary Second City in August of 1974 to open “The Canadian Show or Upper USA,” the 48th revue, along with Toronto players Dan Aykroyd, John Candy and Eugene Levy.
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