Liza Minnelli Quotes

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.

Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

Reality is something you rise above.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.