Quotes About Liberace

No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

Liberace was one of the biggest stars in America. He was a kind of a phenomenon.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.

When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

Liberace only appeared in that one episode,' Win announced. 'Is that your final answer?' 'Yes. Liberace only appeared in that one episode.

First of all, Jericho...Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back!

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.

A few months ago, I was sitting morosely at my desk, wondering why I had ever agreed to review Barbara Bush: A Memoir for an English newspaper. The experience was proving to be a degradation of the act of reading. Imagine, if you will, being strapped into a chair and made to listen to Liberace playing the piano for hour upon hour. Or imagine being fed chocolate dinner mints, like a hapless goose, until you are on the verge of explosion. Such was my lot.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

'Behind The Candelabra' is an HBO movie. It's the Liberace story. Michael Douglass and Matt Damon. I play a small part in it. I play a choreographer who introduces, brings Matt Damon to Las Vegas for the first time.

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

In her prime, she bore a slight resemblance to Liberace, but in a more masculine way

Liberace - or Lee, as us friends called him - was great. He was gay, you know.