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

I'm the original take-orders girl.

When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.

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

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

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

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