Quotes by Liza Minelli

• You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
• 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.
• 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.
• Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.
• 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.
• The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.
• My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.
• You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.
• I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.
• I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.
• I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.
• I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
• Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
• Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.
• 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.
• 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.
• So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.