Gilda Radner Quotes
Gilda Radner’s stage energy still lights up comedy fans, and these 25 quotes capture that spark. From her awe at Second City to the way she turned every line into a shared laugh, each voice paints a performer who never settled for ordinary humor. Fans of improv may also enjoy pages on Carol Burnett and Mad Madison.
![“[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine.” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a19/gene-wilder-3914_died_gilda-radner-died-in-89-and-i-got-non-ho_55482.jpg)
![“[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cc5/gene-wilder-3914_baby_gilda-radner-was-in-the-in-vitro-fertili_815051.jpg)
![“There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ecd/gene-wilder-3914_buried_there-wasn-t-a-funeral-per-se-i-buried-g_2762530.jpg)
![“I met [Gilda Radner] on the first night of filming ... Hanky Panky that Sidney Poitier was directing. And it's funny, I was in costume and makeup - my tuxedo and makeup because I'd done a few shots before she arrived, and she told me later that she cried all the way in, in the car, because she…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3bc/gene-wilder-3914_car_i-met-gilda-radner-on-the-first-night-of_805669.jpg)
![“I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't think I'll ever come east again. So I decided to stay and go through the halls and stairways, talk to Gilda Radner, holler, express some of my anger and make sure there were no ghosts in the…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4cb/gene-wilder-3914_california_i-came-home-after-funerals-and-i-thought_596427.jpg)
