Gilda Radner

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.

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.

I had been a fan of Gene Wilder's for many years, but the first time I saw him in person, my heart fluttered - I was hooked. It felt like my life went from black and white to Technicolor.

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.

I'm not really an impersonator.

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

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

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

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.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm so full I can't hear.