How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

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

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

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.