Gilda Radner

thumb|Gilda Radner in 1980 thumb Gilda Radner (28 June 1946 – 20 May 1989) was an American comedian and actor. Quotes 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. It's Always Something (1989, 2009 edition) It is so hard for us little human beings to accept this deal that we get. It's really crazy, isn't it? We get to live, then we have to die. What we put into every moment is all we have… What spirit human beings have! It is a pretty cheesy deal—all the pleasures of life, and then death. It's Always Something (1989, 2009 edition), p. 87 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. Cells Popular's Young Discoverer Series, Discovery Channel (1988), p. 23, Quotes about Gilda Radner A company producing a television commercial was looking for child dancers. … It was a commercial set in the fifties, and a young family broke into dance. I was the son; I had a sister, a father, and a mother, who was played by Gilda Radner. Gilda had not yet been hired for Saturday Night Live (in fact, Saturday Night Live didn’t exist yet). It was a four-day shoot, and I, like every other human being who met her, fell in love with Gilda. And on the last day of the shoot, we said our goodbyes in the parking lot. I cried like a baby. My whole family came to pick me up, and upon seeing me crying, my brothers gave me a new nickname to replace Twinkletoes. I was hereby called Sucky Baby, because of the emotion I had displayed upon my cruel separation from Ms. Gilda Radner, who became known in my house as “your girlfriend.” I was Sucky Baby for ten years. Mike Myers in "The Next Great Nation", chapter 3 of his memoir Canada (2016) External links Category:1946 births Category:1989 deaths Category:Actresses from Detroit Category:Jewish American actresses Category:Comedians from the United States Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners Category:Women born in the 1940s