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

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.

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

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

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

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

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