When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

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

You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

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

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

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.