Quotes from Liza Minnelli

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

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

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.

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

I've got a good life, and I don't think anything can rock that anymore.

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Working with Dudley Moore was so hilarious. I don't know how we got anything done because everybody was laughing so hard, but he was such a wonderful man, and he had a kindness and a musicality and a dearness to him that was triumphant.

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

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

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

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

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.

I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I always remember this energy force, this woman flying around the room and singing these harmonies so everyone went, 'Wow!' So I thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

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.

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.

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

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.

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

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.