Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

I'm not really an impersonator.

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

I'm so full I can't hear.

- Gilda Radner

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

- Gilda Radner

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.

- Gilda Radner

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

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.

- Gilda Radner

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.

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

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.

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

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

- Gilda Radner

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.

- Gilda Radner

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.

- Gilda Radner