"I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive."

"Well I'll be a monkey's coat!"

"Fame changes alot of things, but it cant change a lightbulb"

"I like high heels, if they make your legs look long. A guy once told me I had long legs, so i capitalized on them by wearing high heels. Unfortunatly I also have a small head. I guess you shouldn't really upset the balance of nature, 'cause the longer i make my legs, the smaller my head looks- kind of like a mountian peak off in the distance."

"My psychology is stiil the same as that fat girl I grew up as. That's why I am not afraid to do anything comedically. I'll walk into a wall. I'm not afraid of anything. I don't worry about feminity- I think I am feminine. But I know I've sacred many men off because of humor. I'll be funny instead of feminine. You'rw not likely to see me sitting back at a party being pretty."

"I like a really big purse, and i mean really big. "I always like to take a little bit of home with me wherever i go.People laugh at me, but they're the same ones that always need a toenail clipper or a big steel file that they end up borrowing from me."

"Are you kidding me or what?" (her favorite catch-phrase)

" I love being a woman. You can cry. You can wear pants now. You can always sit and think when you go to the bathroom. If you're on a boat and it's going to sink, you get to go on the rescue boat first. YOu get to wear cute clothes. Being a woman must be a great thing, or so many men wouldn't be wanting to do it now."

Gilda on kissing: "If your out of town, then make the most of it. Thats how you get experince and can still keep your reputation!"

"Comedy is truth only faster"

"Now i dont have to make up excuses for not having a date. Im working every Saturday night!"

"I am almost always working. Woody Allen once said that it was impossible for him to take a vacation-he said that he could never 'vacate'- and neither can I. It's not that I do it consciously, but I am always absorbing whats going on around me though a comedic lens. People's manerisims, the way they walk...these things never escape me. It's not that I'm thinking all the time. I feel I should try to be, because it seems like real grown up work. But I'm not a writer or creator. I'm an actress- and , though I'm smart, I'm not very analytical."

"I never wanted to be a stand-up comic, because it's like being a knife throwers assistant. YOU risk dying out there for a little applause. I love physical comedy. Women are getting into it again, since Lucy, Just give me that old conveyor belt and a lot of pies."

"Sex is lovely. It can be great. But you know how it is. YOu do it with someone and it changes everything. A few days , or weeks, or months later you hate each other. I don't know what it is. It is such a lovely thing- but do we dare risk everything for a lil sex?" (said to David Saltman)

"Doctors are whippersnappers in ironed white coats, Who spy up your rectums and look down your throats And press you and poke you with steralized tools, andstab at solutions that pacify tools. I used to revere them do what they siad, till I learned what they learned on was already dead."

Quotes About Gilda by Other People

"Sometimes, if you have a faith in God, you can evaluate it or see some lesson in it;" she said. "But I'm having trouble with this one. I really am." ~Laraine Newman after funeral

"She would get knocked down a lot on Saturday Night Live," Zeibel said. "Belushi would knock her down. Jane would knock her down. And she always bounced back. Everyone who knew her felt that she was strong, that she always got up after being knocked down - figuratively and literally - and that she would do it again." Their confidence derived, as well, from Gilda's reserve, her generous impulse to avoid sharing her dread. "What's important to understand," Zweibel continued. "is that whenever she would call, or come over, she wouldn't want to tally about her illness. She would call and ask if I knew any jokes. It was always about the future and about positive things. More than anything, she kept on wanting pictures of my children. I think that because she was so brave, we all thought she would lick it" ~Alan Zweibel

Gilda wanted to be with Gene, period," said Brillstein. "She was in love with Gene Wilier, and she was playing the role of married lady. This was not him being selfish. This was purely her choice."

"Gilda first discovered that she could make people laugh at will. She learned her life-long axiom of comedy: all she had to do was say something true in a certian tone of voice fast enough to take the listener by surprise." ~David Saltman