Liza Minnelli Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Bleeding feet will bond us.
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I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
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(in the film "That's Entertainment!" - 1974) Thank God for film, it can capture a moment and hold it there forever. If anyone ever asks you: "Who were they?" or "What made them so good?" I think a reel of film answers that question.
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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.
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The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
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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.
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I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back...it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.
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I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.
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I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.
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I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.
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I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle
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Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.
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(on Marilyn Monroe) I was walking down Broadway with her and nobody was stopping us. She was going to (Stella Adler's) actors' studio, and she was taking me to show me what it was all about. And I said to her: "How come nobody is taking your picture?" She said: "Well, watch." She took her scarf off, straightened her shoulders, and draped something another way, and we were surrounded. It must have been 400 people. And I said: "Now I know why!"
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Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream
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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.
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It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.
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I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
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Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.
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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.
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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.
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I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.
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I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.
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But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.
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Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
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