Liza Minnelli quotes

Reality is something you rise above.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Motivational #Meaningful #Humorous

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Inspiring #Dream #Thinking

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Mother #Dream #Father

Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Believe #World #This World

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
-- Liza Minnelli

#People #Hollywood #Diaries

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

#Humor #Parent #Sense Of Humor

But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Sister #Brother #Nina

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Thinking #Married #Reason

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.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Waiting #Bless #Said

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Goodbye #Ice #Saws

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

#World #Host #Audience

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Funny #Smoking #Statistics

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Planes

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Reality #Giving #Interesting

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Trying #One Day #Goes On

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Mean #People #Disease

I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's the actor informing the dancer. So I worked on my acting and gradually developed a singing voice.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Moving #Voice #Dancer

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.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Kindness #People #Support

There are so many girls, and so few princes.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Beautiful #Girl #Beautiful Girl

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Party #Piano #People

What good is sitting all alone in your room?
-- Liza Minnelli

#Sitting #Rooms #All Alone

Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream
-- Liza Minnelli

#Dream

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Song #Thinking #Singers

I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Two #Scoliosis #Knees

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Depressing #Reality #Thinking

You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Fall #Jail #Drunk

I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Singing #Acting #Care

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

#Growing Up #Pregnancy #Parent

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.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Real #Thinking #People

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Stars #Children #Growing Up

Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Gay #Icons #People

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.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Mother #Feelings #Territory

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Mother #Father #Artist

And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me.
-- Liza Minnelli

#People #Trying #Acting

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Done #Best Work #Feels

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Dear Friend #Dear #Saddened

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Stars #Children #Growing Up

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

#Believe #Heaven #Earth

I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Hurt #Bed #Drink

Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Shows

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

#Thinking #Sound #Faults

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.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Mother #Dream #Father

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Done #World #Possibility

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Father #Directors #Roles

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.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Mean #Reality #May

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Daughter #Mother #Children

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Mom #Laughing #Raised

He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Dance #Sports #Baseball

Bleeding feet will bond us.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Dance #Feet #Bleeding

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Reality #Mind #Looks

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Mother #Hard Times #Talking

I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Years #Joy #Balls

You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Dream #Hard Work #Want

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
-- Liza Minnelli

#Regret #Yesterday #Tomorrow