Quotes by Liza Minnelli - Page 2

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 / Actress
Broadway
Bye
Goodbye
Ice
Skater
Birdie
Initially
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Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to stay strong; I like being healthy.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Dance
Morning
Class
Healthy
Moving
Stay Strong
Never Stop
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Decided
Fake
Jewelry
No Reason
People
Real
Thinking
Totally
Anyway
Diamonds
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Dream
Parenting
Father's Day
Future
Father
Mother
Said
Thanks
Absolutely
Drive
Gave
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Bye
Changed
Glad
Ice
Process
Skater
Theater
Wanted
Birdie
Saw
Learned
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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 / Actress
Disease
Mean
Needed
People
Always People More
People Help Always
Inherited
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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 / Actress
Business
Cents
Dollars
General Public
Mean
Reality
Show Business
Face
General
Show
Part
Public
Dollar
Element
Performer
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I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Point Of View
Greatest
Greatest Gift
Memory
Point
View
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Daughter
Childhood
Children
Great Tragedy
Mother
Tragedy
Except
Garland
Judy
Tremendously
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Hard Times
Mother
Processing
Talking
Time Me Laugh
Hard Time
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I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Business Movies Me
Making Movies
Push
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The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Female
Gay Community
Good Taste
Taste
Male
Sing
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Pretend
Hide
Raise
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Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Mom
Acting
Sake
Singing
Song
Nobody
Sang
Piece
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I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Grateful
Proud
Perform
Parents
Hurdles
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He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Feels
Threatened
Tough
Unreasonable
Good Home Your
Producer
Unless
Yes
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I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Example
Preaching
Laughs
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It's like being an athlete; you get into a certain shape where you really have the right wind, because it's all to do with breath. Because singing and dancing at the same time is not easy!
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Athlete
Certain
Dancing
Easy
Singing
Wind
Breath
Same Time
Shape
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Half the time, I feel like I'm 12. And the rest of the time, I feel like I'm 80. So I guess I'm somewhere in between. No, I feel great. I've got my health, and that's the most important thing.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Health
Half
Time Great Important
Somewhere
Rest
Guess
Half The Time
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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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 / Actress
Children
Compare
Growing Up
Hollywood
Lifestyle
No Idea
Stars
Star
Seemed
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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 / Actress
Dream
Inspiring
Celebrate
Mind
Thinking
Like
Go
Then
Anyone
Who
Take
How
Would
Places
Possibilities
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I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Time Done Me
Challenge
Time Better Done
Every Time
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Well, I've known Elizabeth almost all of her life and almost all of my life. And I love her with all of my heart and she's always been there for me. She's a wonderful, wonderful dame. She's a great lady.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Wonderful
Life Love Great
Almost
Almost All
Dame
Elizabeth
Her
Lady
She
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Filled
Filled Up
Joy
Slap
Years
Quite
Ball
Thriving
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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 / Actress
Dance
Sports
Baseball
Believe
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I had no interest in filming. I sometimes went to the studios with my dad, but it was slow-going; it was boring to watch. I always ended up in the rehearsal hall watching the dancing. That's what I liked to do.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Dad
Dancing
Rehearsal
Studios
Filming
Liked
Watch
Ended
Hall
No Interest
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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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Accomplish
Acting
Bunch
People
Trying
Time Good Together
Liked
Exciting Time
Project
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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.
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Dancer
Moving
Voice
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Kindness
Wedding
Cherish
People
Support
Entertain
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
California
Clothes
Long Time
Television
Time Mom Mother
Appearances
Time Mom Long
Designing
Ray
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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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Forever
Thank God
Thinking
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Hilarious
Laughing
Musicality
Triumphant
Wonderful
Moore
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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.'
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Energy
Flying
Force
Lap
Singing
Sitting
Wow
Mom Always Remember
Across
Harmonies
Room
Thompson
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Entertaining
Foolish
Guests
Looks
Mind
Reality
Reality Shows
Every Time
Minds
Parts
Reality Show
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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.
Liza Minnelli / Actress
Grateful
Looks
Unhappy
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My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.
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Curiosity
Looks
Parent
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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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Believe
Should Have
Thinking
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She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.
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Misery
Trying
Wonderful
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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 / Actress
Feelings
Lioness
Mother
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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!"
Liza Minnelli / Actress
People
Stopping
Watches
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