Liza Minnelli Quotes

Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream

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.

Reality is something you rise above.

I came out of the womb looking for the camera angle

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

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

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

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.

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.

(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!"

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.

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

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.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.

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.

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

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.

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

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.

There are so many girls, and so few princes.

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 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.

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