[On daughter Liza Minnelli] I think she decided to go into show business when she was an embryo, she kicked so much.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

My life, my career has been like a roller coaster. I've either been an enormous success or just a down-and-out failure.

As for my feelings toward "Over the Rainbow", it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.